Male Phidippus adumbratus Stack
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martinfisherphoto wrote:
Better with 20 plus images.
With sippyjug, AKA Gary, on one end and you on the other, stacking gets a full coverage of range. As beautiful as his are, I think that my patience would run out.
Your work is more what I would like to emulate.
Gary favors us with photos and explanations of techniques, would you be good enough to do the same?
I think this fits into my budget and gear collection well.
Do I understand that you acquire subjects from outside sources? That is a service I will be happy to provide.
I am in an Annapolis waterfront community and collect regularly. Even can do a bit of ID work. More beetles and other insects, but most any natural history subject.
Look forward to more of your work.
Bill
Oct 10, 2019 20:24:29 #
newtoyou wrote:
With sippyjug, AKA Gary, on one end and you on the... (show quote)
That's easy. With your macro rig adjusted to 1:1 or greater if using tubes, just find a subject. Now acquire focus at the very front section of the subject and take a shot, now move the camera forward about 1/32 inch and take another shot. Continue to do this while moving straight forward thru the stack. You have about 15 seconds or less to do this before the subject moves. If they move just repeat and until stack acquired. Can take 10 minutes or several hours per stack.
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Oct 11, 2019 08:20:25 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
A beautiful result! Not easy, I am sure.
Hey Mark, just like anything else, just lots of practice. I would easily shot five or six hundred frames in a session back when I was learning how to hand stack. I had also been shooting lots of 2:1 and some higher magnification using the rayon DCR250 and even some reverse lens mount macro. With such shallow depth of field you have to be perfect in you shooting methods. It just became a natural coordination between my hands and eyes. In fact if one wanted to learn I would suggest hand holding 3:1 macro or greater first. If you can nail focus at these levels, 1:1 takes no thought at all, just comes natural. From here hand stacking is very reachable. Your able to See the thin slices of focus planes.
Oct 11, 2019 10:08:55 #
Excellent image once again! Keep them coming, I know that you will because focus stacking is highly addictive with no known cure.
You are spot on with your description of the process and that the level of magnification highly impacts the number of shots that are required in a stack. I do many deep stack sessions with microscope objectives and other gear combinations and it is not uncommon to take four or more hours to process all of the images into one.
It's a joy to see your work and the 1:1 is just as sharp and highly detailed and allows the use of live subjects which truly is quite eye catching. I have done several staged setting with mounted insects however nothing compares to live critters so a "tip of the hat" to your work.
You are spot on with your description of the process and that the level of magnification highly impacts the number of shots that are required in a stack. I do many deep stack sessions with microscope objectives and other gear combinations and it is not uncommon to take four or more hours to process all of the images into one.
It's a joy to see your work and the 1:1 is just as sharp and highly detailed and allows the use of live subjects which truly is quite eye catching. I have done several staged setting with mounted insects however nothing compares to live critters so a "tip of the hat" to your work.
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