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Tomatoes from our garden.
Macro isn't really my thing. Photoshop isn't really my thing either. But it was fun to learn something new for this week's challenge. This is a focus stack blend of six photos, each at a slightly different manual focus from front to back.
Focus stacking: 4 images.
Location: Blockhouse Point Park, Montgomery County, MD.
M. uniflora is a flowering plant devoid of chlorophyll. It survives by parasitizing fungi, commonly a small range of l hosts that are members of Russulaceae.
I wanted to try this technique for a while now. This is a combination of four different images. I focused on a different spot for each one, then merged them in photoshop pretty much the same way you do a pano.. It's all automated.. It's pretty cool, but it did come out a little goofy... Here is a video tutorial that I followed
View This Damn Huge to see the goofiness.
I found a roadside rock face with over a dozen little pumpkins placed strategically, and felt compelled to make some focus stacks. They're not very exciting, but there's nice detail on the lichen. There certainly isn't any bokeh! The images are 100-frame focus stacks, blended with Helicon Focus.
aus 10 Aufnahmen mit schrittweise nach hinten verlagertem Focuspunkt in PS zusammengesetzt --
composed of 10 shots with the focus point gradually shifted backwards in PS
here the first shot (focus foreground)
An experiment from a week or so ago. I took 5 shots, manual focus of this scene and stacked it so the woods in the back round would be in focus.
I think it worked out well.
Ips amitinus (male ?)
Body length : 4.5 mm
20.VII.2021
Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Arc 2000, Savoie, France
Found within star shaped galleries on Pinus sp.
- Focus stack of 27-71 images
- Microscope objectives (Nikon M Plan 10x 160/0.25 + Cheap Chinese Plan 4x 160/0.17)
- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
NB : on the top left picture, the left legs were not visible on the original picture and have been cloned/mirored from the right legs
Inverse Raindrop on pond filter brush. Focus stacked from 2 pics.
Inverse of this shot www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/176105140/
First posting with new camera, new software and new technique.
The flower was rescued from garage that is used to winter some of our flowers. Not bad for January in Minnesota.
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I used focus stacking software, Helicon to stack 20 images to get extended depth of field. I am happy with the results with one major exception. It appears that I did not start the series close enough to the camera; the front of the vase is not just out of focus it is all muddy.
On the image right out of Helicon before it was reduced for Flickr, cat hair can be seen in the foreground and background on the sheepskin.
Noticed the ground spider webs were covered in dew this morning- tiny drops < 0.5mm. Focus stacked from 4 pics
Vase by Jessie Garcia, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Black-on-white pottery has been en vogue in prehistoric times for many centuries in most of the Northern Southwest, Colorado Plateau and beyond. From what I can find in the books, she is a great-granddaugther of Lucy Lewis, one of the potters who revived Acoma pottery in the 20th century.
This image is the result of 12 shots combined by focus stacking for increased depth of field, using Lightroom and dedicated stacking software Helicon Focus. Nikkor 2.8/105mm macro lens at f5.6, D850. Jar height is c. 15 cm (6 inches). Eighth in series of shooting at home while in social distancing - appreciate your comments and faves!
A studio stack of 220 images
focus step 0.004mm
stackshot rail
zerene stacker PMax
nikon D810
mitutoyo 10x/0.28 microscope objective on a nikon 200mm f4 lens
This was taken from Waitts Mount park in Malden, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. It's a focus stack, with 30 frames blended into one with Photoshop.
Today's macro photos in the garden all make use of in-camera focus stacking, which really shows the detail that would be hard to see with the naked eye.
Day 22 for April 2025: A month in 30 pictures
Built in the 1000s on the foundations of an earlier church, listed as a Historic Landmark on Prosper Mérimée’s very first list in 1840, the abbey church of Saint Theudère stands in the village of Saint-Chef in the French département of Isère, east of Lyon, towards the Alps.
When I say “earlier church”, I mean the one built in the 500s (of which nothing visible remains) when Theudère of Dauphiné, a local Benedictine monk who had been a trained disciple of Saint Césaire in Arles, returned to bis birthplace to found an abbey. The village of Saint-Chef grew around it during the Middle Ages, while the abbey itself reached its apogee around 1200, at the end of the Romanesque age, when it ruled over a dozen priories and about 80 churches in the environs. Decline came shortly after 1300, when the monks, profoundly divided in two factions, could not elect a new abbot. Pope John XII, then residing in Avignon, issued a bull in 1320 whereby the archbishop of Vienne would become the abbot of Saint-Chef, which forever lost its independence as of that fateful day.
The last remnants of the Benedictine communal life were washed away in the 1530s when the remaining “monks” (but could they still be called that?) were authorized by King Francis Ist and Pope Paul III to abandon their religious status and their vows (including that of poverty!), thus turning them into secular canons. The canons then went on living what was probably a much more comfortable (in all material respects!) life, until that wasn’t even good enough: in 1774, they requested and obtained (claiming isolation and the insalubrious nature of the area, poor dears) to abandon the village of Saint-Chef and be transferred to the abbey of Saint-André-le-Bas in the city of Vienne.
It should come as no surprise that, when the French Revolution erupted a few years later, not many voices were raised to defend and protect the abbey’s buildings, which were sold, destroyed and their stones used for construction works in the village and surrounding area.
The church itself, turned into a parish church, remained as the only legacy of what the powerful abbey had once been.
This rather sad story of downfall, lack of resolve and backbone, and probably outright lack of faith, outweighed by an appetite for creature comforts and personal wealth by those who had vowed to forsake them, has fortunately not contaminated the church itself, which remains as it ever was, one of the most striking examples of Romanesque architecture in the Dauphiné province. Even more importantly, the Saint Theudère former abbey church houses one of the finest (in all of France!) sets of Romanesque alfresco paintings from the 1100s, located in places not normally open to the public, but to which I managed to secure access. I hope you will enjoy them.
The nave is very airy and well lit, with relatively thin piles to support a vault that we unfortunately cannot see, owing to an equally unfortunate wood paneling. There is precious little decoration, the walls are utterly uninteresting and the capitals are quite bare.
This is a composite shot made of two focus-stacked exposures stitched with Helicon Focus software. I did this as a precautionary measure because the nave is quite long, and I needed to have everything in good focus, especially the stoup in the foreground.
A studio stack of 300 images
focus step 0.004mm
stackshot rail
zerene stacker PMax
nikon D810
mitutoyo 10x/0.28 microscope objective
mounted on a nikon 200mm f4 lens
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Keto Omelette using my Agfa APX100 Film Sim.
My first attempt at doing a focus-stacked image. For those doing Keto it is an egg-white omelette made with bacon, ham, mushrooms, avocado and topped with salsa.
Fujifilm X-T4 w/ 18mm f/2 lens using my Film Simulation for Agfa APX 100 which emulates a yellow-green filter
Agfa APX100 Y/G Recipe:
Film Sim: Acros G
Dynamic Range: DR100
ISO: 160
Grain Effect: Off
Color Chrome Effect: Weak
White Balance: 10000K, -7 Red & -9 Blue
Sharpening: +1
Highlight: +4
Shadow: +2
Noise Reduction: 0
Clarity: +2
Image Quality: Fine + RAW
Aspect Ratio: 3:2
Exposure Compensation: +/-0