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NS 224 heads into the siding at Ferguson, with it's stacks on the head end. The first several well cars being single stacked, made for a nice perspective of the train rounding the curve.
-NS C40-9W #9509, #9525, SD70M #2599 leading power
-NS Train #224
-NS (ex-Wabash) St. Louis District, CP S12.5 Ferguson
-Along N Clark Ave, Ferguson, MO
-April 9, 2017
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Negative Stacking
I used to do quite a bit of negative stacking in the enlarger in the 90s when I had my own darkroom and an enlarger that would take a 4X5 negative. I was gifted with an A4 LED light tablet for my birthday and decided to try a bit of negative stacking to see if I could reprise that technique in my repertoire.
While Loch Stack has a photogenic bothy which can be used in a composition it was these trees at the telephoto end of the view which took my interest.
I finally found something that stayed still long enough for me to take several photos for a focus stack.
This is the first one I've tried with the mpe65 lens since I've had it.
It's 4 images taken at 2.5x and focus stacked using Zerene.
Not the best one you'll ever see, but hey, you gotta start somewhere :P
HFDF
Sweet Arrow Reserve
Bellbrook, Ohio
Focus-stack of two hand-held images. Taken with Nikon D7000 ISO 400 f/11 1/250 sec. and Nikkor 105mm f/4 Micro AI manual focus lens + 27mm + 20mm + 14mm + 12mm extension tubes, off-body flash with DIY snoot/diffuser
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Walk through Borrego Badlands to Seventeen Palm Grove
Near Arroyo Solado
Anza Borrego Desert Park
California, USA
Turf Stacks, Connemara
a picture taken more or less from the roadside , returned again to fine tune the image but the stacks were gone , this image was taken handheld with the camera stretched out above my head , tilting screen came in very handy
Five kittens in a row: The happy family complete.
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I bought a cluster of pink hyacinths at the florist, with bare bulbs in water. This is a 150-frame focus stack, blended with Helicon Focus.
Stacking …. Many views may know what this term means but I’ll give my version so all will know. Stacked photos are more than one photo taken with a different focal point. In the case of this image there were 5 photos taken at different focus points. There are programs that will combine all the images using the sharpest points from all the images to combine one final image with the detail focused.
I’m glad from the last posting no one asked me what plant that was….. I don’t know, I was concentrating on capturing the images and not writing down the plant names. These were captured in the Colorado University greenhouses. I hope to get back again soon to correct some of my errors in shooting and further fine tune my stacking technique. This was taken with my new macro 70-180mm but not at the macro setting (1:1) I was probably about 1:4 ratio for this image.
So, I went back into my friend's cellar at Avalon Vineyard in East Pennard with the thought to photo-stack N. murinus. There's a load of rotten, blackened wood underneath a massive mixing bin in the winery cellar, and the more interesting springtails seem to like it there.
With the Neelidae I've watched, they scamper for a bit, then pause for around a second before starting off again. Ideal for stacking, if you're quick enough... (taking different focused photos of the same, hopefully stationary object before merging them all with software on the computer- Zerene stacker in this case).
What it means, is that there's a good chance of picking out more detail as you can use a higher fstop, with less depth of field. I probably could have gone higher but then there's less of a chance to use the one shots on their own. It's a juggling act.
But, and it's a big but, you also have to be very accurate, lucky and get your different, hand-focused shots all done in under a second of an animal around 0.7mm big that's usually running away from you! In the pitch black of a cellar, with a torch. And this was at around x20 magnification....
As far as I know, this is the first time anyone has managed (or wanted!) to stack N. murinus! But I must say, I'm kind of chuffed with the results. Still not perfect, but it's a learning curve...
As an example of extreme stacking, here's a shot of Megalothorax minimus I took a few weeks ago, which would come up to the top of N. minimus's legs. At only 0.25mm big, again, no-one has been daft enough to attempt to stack one before, either, as far as I know.
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... the height is round about 15 mm
Macro 1:1. Focus stacking. Sony A7II (ILCE-7M2) with Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 DI Macro 1:1 VC USD (F017E). Wide open shot f/2.8.
Used camera/lens combination and focus stacking equipment --> Focus Stacking Equipment.
Canon eos 60D + Tamron 17-50 f2.8 inversé @17mm + Flash Venus KX800 F10, ISO 800, 1/250eme, Stack de 41 clichés sur rail Velbon Super Mag Slider assemblés avec Photoshop CS6. Grossissement final environ 4,5:1
A beach event was coming up and a stack of plastic chairs was sitting in the sun, waiting to be deployed...
The party rental place calls them “White Café Style Chairs, made for year round outdoor exposure. Plastic stacking chairs are great furniture at cafés, bistros, poolside dining and outdoor restaurants. Commercial grade plastic resin furniture is made to last with constant public use...”
Stacked chairs in a second hand store.
Minolta XD-7
Minolta MD 50mm 1:1.7
Ilford XP2 Super
scanned with a Minolta Dimage Dual II and Vuescan
Well this is going to be one of my little projects this Winter, focus stacking Collembola, with this I decided to try using my 1.4x teleconverter and my MP-E at x5, so in all this was a x7 magnification handheld focus stack of just 6 images at F/6.3. I'm hoping to get deeper with the stacks as the Winter goes on.
It really is a very hit and miss affair with these guys, sometimes they will stay perfectly still and then sometimes they are always moving, especially those antennae, but I was reasonably fortunate that this female stayed put for just long enough, anyway an ongoing project and with the numbers increasing I think it quite achievable, the main thing is refining the technique :o)
I hope everyone in the Southwest has a safe day, apparently going to get very wet again and then I hear that next week temps are going to drop to -15C, well at least it will slow down the Globular Springtails a bit LOL :o)
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Found this cool little spot where tradition was too stack rocks i'm assuming.
Canon AE-1 Program. Hawaii.
A focus-stacked shot with 60 layers spaced 0.07 mm apart, taken by Sophia, using our new automated wooden flexure stage.
Some more from Pyrmont shooting towards International Towers, Barangaroo and Cockle Bay Wharf.
This is a single frame image with about 20 images stacked again as per the previous images. These are 30 second exposures which give a smoother water but slightly more harsh highlights. Still looks alright to me.
NYS&W northbound stack train #553 has GP18 #1804, E9's #2400 #2402 and SD45 #3612 at Chenango Bridge, NY on February 20th 1997. Kodak Kodachrome, © Joe Geronimo
A stack of 4 images to reduce noise, how to on our blog:
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Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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