Reflect & Remember

These large, spectacular flowers are, sad to say, ephemeral, each lasting only a couple days.

Vespa velutina 50 stacks, Objectif micro achromatic chinois 10x 0,24 , 160. Wemacro rail. HF, LR.

Cryptocephalus sp. (?). Stack of 12 images.

Did a few flower macros for this one but decided to try something that I have not done before which is Focus Stacking. Listened to a few podcasts & watched a few videos. Learned a lot this week! Thanks for the challenge.

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Agrilus angustulus male

Body length : 5.5 mm

09.VII.2021 - Houyet, Belgium

On Quercus sp.

- Focus stack of 50-51 images

- Olympus 60mm macro

- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II

- High res mode

High-detail macro photograph of vibrant yellow lichen growing on textured tree bark, created using a 50-image focus stack. The technique allows exceptional sharpness across the entire frame, revealing intricate organic patterns, rich textures, and fine surface detail found in forest ecosystems.

I've look in my moth book but can't identify this one!

Focusstacking

Olympus digital camera, Focus stacking

Amblyteles armatorius

lumek ozbrojený

Photographed using Fuji GFX 50s on Cambo Actus view camera with Cambo Actar 105mm macro lens set at 1.25 X magnification at f5.6 ISO 100 1 sec. Focus stack of 72 images.

Focusstack, aus

255 Bilder, with 255 Images, Schrittweite/Step length 0,015 mm

I'm testing focus stacking for the first time. I'm using Zerene Stacker (zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker) as it seems to be the only one available for Linux. It's really easy to use.

This one uses 9 images taken with Nikkor 55/3.5 at f/5.6.

Corymbia ficifolia, Red-flowering Gum

This species was widely planted in my little town, Morro Bay, CA, many years ago.

"Eucalypts are the most widespread of California's cultivated trees." -- Matt Ritter, Cal Poly SLO botanist, in "A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us." I think he uses the term, "eucalypt" to mean all of several related genera.

Olympus digital camera, Focus stacking

Olympus digital camera, Focus stacking

Focus stacking with Helicon Remote and Helicon Focus as software and Nikon D750 and Tamron 90/2.8 as hardware.

Olympus BH2-BHT SPlan 4, polarized light, Helicon Focus

Agrilus suvorovi found dead within the larval galleries on opulus tremula

Grand Carti, Feschaux, Belgium, 07.VII.2021

Body length : 8 mm

- Focus stack of 27-50 images

- Microscope objective Nikon M Plan 10x 160/0.25 (bad results because the magnification is too low...)

- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II

- High res mode

Focus stacking di 7 scatti. © Eugenio Sollima.

Cavalletta

Hi, this is basically a quick test to see what i could get by moving the flash i have in different positions around the fly whilst taking the images.

For 3-4 hours today i tried to get some stacking done of quite a few different insects i had lined up, all of which failed because when i would get close to finishing, i would realise that part of the fly was out of shot meaning it had been moving slowly out of the lens as i was photographing it OR the tripod (broken) was shifting every time i wanted to focus on something else.

Although i was in a bad mood i decided to throw this together even if i wasn't happy with it. As always, i don't walk away from something unfinished, especially if it's artsy.

Plans -

New Tripod

Micro metre (auto)

DIY holder for rail

2x LED lamps for better lighting !

More patience when taking the photos :D

I would like to thank Gary (GeeTee55) and Craig Taylor a lot for advice given to me and i will take it in good favour and get to work putting their great ideas into action !!

Comment on the problems with this photo that need sorting, then i will post another one with a different (better) setup and see if i can distinguish them for good :-)

Taken at 3.8:1 this is the result of a focus stack error but liked the result

Nah dran

Window Light

I Celiferi sono un sottordine di insetti ortotteri noti con il termine generico di cavallette o locuste.

My first foray into focus-stacking. This is a combination of seven individual images focus-stacked in CS5.

Frankfurt, view to Feldberg

Leaf miner jewel beetle (Buprestidae, Agrilinae, Trachini). Length: 2,35 mm.

These tiny jewel beetles are developing inside leaves. Their larvae make curved galleries under the surface of various leaves. The host plants of Trachys scrobiculatus are Glechoma species. Adults can be found on the leaves of the plant between spring and autumn.

This picture is a member of a studio lighting comparison from my previous post.

105 exposures taken with the Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 10/0.28 microscope objective attached on a Rodenstock Apo-Gerogon 9/150 enlarger lens at 9,2x magnification. 2 LED lamps used here, shots made with 1/3 sec., live view, silent shooting mode.

The original image

Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

Focusstacking with 9 pictures - Nikon D7100 + Sigma 105 mm macro

Taken at 4 1/2x with the mpe65.

An 11 shot focus stack using Zerene.

And now for something completely different. Got to do some playing around with some macro lenses last weekend. Here is a shot of the inner workings of a watch shot with a Canon 60mm Macro and a set of Kenko extension tubes. This is 4 images stacked in Photoshop CC.

Focus stacking of 87 frames. Shot by Nikon D800, 60mm f/2.8D micro.

Focusstacking aus 45 Einzelbildern

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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