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Inside a Forsythia flower. 64 images taken with 50D and MP-E 65mm at 5x using 0.06mm steps with a Cognisys StackShot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/16 with diffusion gels.
Stamen and anther of an Oxalis 'Plum Crazy' flower. 35 images shot with Canon 50D and MP-E 65mm at 5x using 60 micron steps with a Cognisys StackShot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/32 with diffusion gels.
This is a handheld nine shot focus bracket merged in Photoshop. The Olympus E-M1 Mk ll's image stabilization is good enough and it fires fast enough to do this, though the implementation of shot spacing and number of shots needs to be rethought by Olympus's engineers. Currently they allow you to enter the number of shots and a number that is vaguely related to shot spacing. You then select the closest point you want in focus and fire away, hoping you have guessed right. This one came out alright. Others have not. If you change the lens, the f stop, the subject, the distance etc, you have to start over again. The camera has enough info to calculate depth of field. It would seem that a better scheme would be to focus on the near and far locations and let the camera figure out the shots. It's not complicated math. It was all worked out on slide rules a hundred years ago.
Raindrop on pond filter brush. Focus stacked from 2 pics
see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/176105141/ for inverse version
48 images taken with 50D and MP-E 65mm at 5x plus 68mm of extension tubes (~6.5x) using 0.03mm steps with a Cognisys StackShot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/32 with diffusion gels.
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.
Using the new E-M1 firmware 4.0 with the focus stacking feature with 19 shots and Focus differential set to 5.
Focusstack of a coffe bean using Helicon Focus and Stackshot. 85 single pictures are used to produce this picture.
Must be the oddest one I've ever taken. The dead bug is stuck to a young leaf of a rhododendron but I suspect a strand of spiders web is involved as well. I have not rotated the pic :)
Focus stacked from 2 pics
Shot with my Canon EOS M3 and EF-M 55-200mm lens. 10 frames focus stacked in Photoshop.
I was also carrying my 4x5 large format kit which includes a double-sided 1 metre square focusing cloth (black on one side and white on the other). I shot the thistles with the natural background and with the cloth draped over a branch with either the black or white side providing subject isolation.
This is the version shot with the white background.
In post processing, it was amazing to see how differently I wanted to treat the images based solely on the different backgrounds.
Focus stacking has the benefit of maintaining good background blur compared to shooting with a small f-stop. Also, since there was a bit of wind and the subject was moving slightly, I was able to shoot with a wide open aperture, fast shutter speed, and moderate ISO setting to prevent motion blur. If I was shooting a single frame at a high f-stop I would have to use a long shutter speed and/or high ISO and would loose a lot of detail as a result.
After 15. Qa1.
Playing around with Zerene Stacker.
January 6, 2013.
Pixel peeps can verify see how painfully focused and oversharpened this is here.
Juniper Hair Cap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) at Thursley Common National Nature Reserve, Surrey England
Lichen with focus stack. A beginner in Macro and stacking and possibly overkill but this is 40 images blended in photoshop.
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.
While color-correcting the interior of the beet I sat with it, freshly sliced (it fades with exposure to air), next to me. Of course who knows if your monitor is calibrated the same as mine, but the color is dead spot on correct on my screen.
The glass is of the semi-frosted variety that's used as non-glare glass in picture framing. I painted on the smooth side (so I can wash it off later... I hope) and placed a soft box underneath, then lit the yam and golden beet from above. It's a lot of orange, I know. This was more of an experiment than anything. I think that if I try this sort of thing again I'll put dilute paint into a spray (mister) bottle and use it as a makeshift airbrush.