sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is my preserved Queen European Hornet that I've had dry preserved for over a year now. I keep her in a tightly closed container with moth balls. She's holding up well except that her eyes are dehydrated. I found her in the woods buried in the mud last winter. I had also found a Queen Bald Faced Hornet like that as well.

It is another focus stacked session using a reversed mounted 28mm enlarger lens mounted on 20mm of extension tube using a Fujifilm X-T20 mirrorless camera with constant diffused LED lighting. This session was 315 images taken at 15-micron of travel for each shot taken. The stack of images was then processed in Zerene Stacker.

As always, thanks in advance to all who view and for your comments, suggestions, questions and critique.

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photosbytw Loc: Blue Ridge Mountains

When using Zerene, which do you prefer pmax or dmap?

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I use Pmax exclusively. I've tried Dmap several times however I have not mastered the threshold setting which frustrates me so I keep mine simple with Pmax only.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

I had done several settings in DMap and find some small differences. The higher % settings are a bit better at resolving overlaps, but you have to go pretty extreme to see that benefit. I often don't see much difference at all between extremely different settings. Maybe this is b/c you are in the super macro range and I generally am not.
Of course a standard thing is to take the DMap picture (which has less noise and it can have better color tones) and retouch with the PMax (better at handling overlaps, but has more noise).

photosbytw Loc: Blue Ridge Mountains

and I thought it was just me................

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Beautiful!

Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

Lovely!