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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.
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.
A composite image using images captured via the focus stacking functionality provided by the Magic Lantern Firmware add-on for Canon DSLR's.
Original stack was 10 x raw images
A male "snow flea" - Boreus hyemalis (Mecoptera) - frontal view
This special kind of scorpion fly is active as an adult only during the winter. It lives mainly in mosses and it can frequently be observed jumping on the snow.
Scale : The image is covering a field of ~4 mm
Technical settings :
- focus stack of 34 images
- microscope objective (Nikon achromatic 10x 160/0.25) mounted directly on the camera body (+30mm extention from the adapter)
A little pandemic, stuck-at-home macro experiment. Mistakes were made. ;)
Glencairn Whiskey glass, six images focus stacked.
It's sitting on a black microfiber cloth on top of a case for Apple AirPod Pros. The larger black material behind it is a trash bag ;)
My Sony A7RII with the Sony GM 24mm F1.4 lens is mounted on an Edelkrone StandONE and FlexTILT Head 2 with the Quick Release One.
Lighting is my desk LED light plus two LItraTorches with diffusers mounted on a Platypod Max with the Platypod Goosenecks.
Initial processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Week 38 - Technical : Focus Stacking
I had the opportunity to visit an orchid greenhouse and decided to test focus stacking there. This one is done with 6 pictures, with tripod, at F2.0. I changed the focus manually, and it was hard doing more that 6 pictures.
Stacking done with Picolay (I don't have Photoshop). The border of the flower is a bit strange, don't kow if it's the pictures or the software.
25 images taken with 50D and MP-E 65mm at 1x using 0.6mm steps with a Cognisys Stackshot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/64 with Rosco 332 and 366 gels.
I came across this dead beetle while pulling weeds and just couldn't let it go to waste. This is a seven-shot stack merged in CombineZP and enhanced with Topaz Detail 3. Canon T2i w/ Canon 100mm f/2.8 @ f/11 on a macro rail.
Asiatic lily (Lilium asiatic) stigma with grains of pollen around the edges. 17 images taken with 50D MP-E 65mm at 2x manually stepped with macro rail and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/32 with diffusion gels.
A young Anna's Hummingbird and a Variegated Meadowhawk were resting on twigs in the same bush, but I couldn't get focus on both of them in the same shot.
I tried handheld focus-stacking by keeping the framing about the same and taking one photo of the hummingbird in focus and a second one with the dragonfly in focus (behind it) and combining the shots in Photoshop.
The unpleasant, but plain, background was the wall of a building.
The young hummer was feeding independently but still has some down feathers to lose.
And, I've never seen a yellow wash on the backwing of a Variegated Meadowhawk.
MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA
Nikon CF N Plan Achromat 10/0.30 + Fuelle OM + Olympus E-M1
Magnificacion X10
Cuadro de 1,73 x 1.29mm
Escamas de Chrysiridia rhipheus
From 13 different focal lengths. In-camera processed JPEG on top, RAW-processed and focus-stacked image on bottom.
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.
I just recently learned about focus stacking with macro photography! Just experimenting to see how it works.
I found this lovely Native Hydrangea growing in a ditch. This is photo was composited from 9 photos with different focal lengths.
For Trial1, I'm noticing Photoshop's blending has some issues around the white flower petals. It's creating blur where it shouldn't.
A little pandemic, stuck-at-home macro experiment. Mistakes were made. ;)
A piece of pumice from Mount St Helens.
My Sony A7RII with the Sony G 24-105mm F4 lens is mounted on an Edelkrone StandONE and FlexTILT Head 2 with the Quick Release One.
Lighting is my desk LED light plus two LItraTorches with diffusers mounted on a Platypod Max with the Platypod Goosenecks.
Initial processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
This image has a clusterf_ck story behind it. I was attempting a 15-shot focus stack while tethered and employing Helicon Remote software control, as I'd done on so many recent images, but couldn't get it to work. It took me a full day and many trials/errors before I discovered the problem. Plural: problems; and that's the really pernicious part. If you're just doing one thing wrong it's fairly easy to figure out, but when it's a combination of three things, stumbling onto the solution to any one, or even two, doesn't help - you need to solve all three simultaneously.
Then, part two: I was simultaneously attempting to shoot with different exposures so I could make an HDR of this scene, which has lots of deep shadows and some reflective highlights. But my middle set didn't work and there was so much time taken between my under-and over-exposed sets due to the other problem that the tangelos changed size, shape, or softness and settled about a twentieth of an inch between sets, making image alignment impossible. (I used the underexposed set.)
For fans of Helicon: I had adjusted two innocuous-seeming preference settings in the software, and had discovered and started using the auto-focus feature to save time defining far and near focus points. Both preference changes were fatal and you cannot use auto-focus on both back and front points, the second usage wipes away the memory of the first. The pref. settings (for those truly interested in the software) in v1.21 beta were "size of focusing steps" and "pause between focusing steps". Using a Nikon D300 I'd attempted to use "small" and something like a 25ms pause; had success when altered to "large" and 100ms.
Shot with D300 at f8 with AF-S 105mm Micro VR 2.8, SB-800 with diffuser right, SB-800 left with gobo to illumnate the white bristleboard background. There is an overhead halogen desk lamp providing ambient. This is a composite of 30 images, each with a slightly different focus. This was due to the fact that the flower is approximately 40mm in depth, and F8 has only slightly less that 2 mm of depth. The stacks were assembled in Zerene Stacker. TetherScript was used to capture the images for the focus stack.