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Couple more field FOCUS STACK
Apr 27, 2013 07:25:26   #
martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida
 
Ran into a few problems with the Dragon fly stack. Lose detail of the fine hairs around the nose. Could not clone in without cloning the blurred background along with the fine hair. I can see where having Photoshop and the ability to Layer would help in stack like this. Grass hopper turn out alright. Grasshopper was 9 photo stack, dragonfly was 20 photo stack. Used f/9 for both. Field stacking is a challenge.
Second photo of dragon shows the fine hair detail above the nose I'm missing in the final stack.







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Apr 27, 2013 08:21:17   #
joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ
 
Amazing photos, the second dragon fly photo made me say "wow" out loud.

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Apr 27, 2013 08:23:02   #
joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ
 
Amazing photos, the first dragon fly photo made me say "wow" out loud.

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Apr 27, 2013 09:13:36   #
tinusbum Loc: east texas
 
i dont know how you can do a 20 stack on a dragonfly,they are always moving their head and eyes.you did good!tom

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Apr 27, 2013 09:50:35   #
LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field
 
tinusbum wrote:
i dont know how you can do a 20 stack on a dragonfly,they are always moving their head and eyes.you did good!tom



I'm amazed as well. Well done.

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Apr 27, 2013 12:01:31   #
martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida
 
Hey.Tom
this guy was setting still but still moved his head from side to side. I just waited until he was done moving his head. Now his antenna I had to clone correct as he moved these the entire time. My finished stack had two antenna on the left side and a blurry one on the right side. I also took 3 sets of photos to stack and this one was the best set because I moved to much in one and he moved to much in the other.
tinusbum wrote:
i dont know how you can do a 20 stack on a dragonfly,they are always moving their head and eyes.you did good!tom

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Apr 27, 2013 12:21:41   #
Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA
 
This is why most insect focus-stack photographers use deceased subjects.

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Apr 28, 2013 13:14:09   #
Country's Mama Loc: Michigan
 
I'm impressed, especially with #2

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Apr 28, 2013 15:40:41   #
iDoc Loc: Knoxville,Tennessee
 
Number 2 is fantastic

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