sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

My more perfect half enjoys cucumbers and seldom does a day go by that she goes without. While making a cup of coffee I found a sliver of one in the sink (I don't know how it got away!) and I rushed it downstairs for a magnified focus stacking session before she realized she missed one.

This image was taken with a Laowa 60mm 2X Super Macro lens and is comprised of 221 images processed in Zerene Stacker.

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ralf Loc: NJ

I am not a macro photog, so I have to ask: why 221 images? Was it for focus stacking, or for some other purpose?

ralf Loc: NJ

I am not a macro photog, so I have to ask: why 221 images? Was it for focus stacking, or for some other purpose?

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Yes, this is a focus stacked image. The reason that so many images were required is that I use a combination of lenses that produce a 'flat depth of field'.

Imagine that your camera would only focus as deep as the thickness of a piece of paper and anything closer or farther would be out of focus. Essentially that what I do.

Then I take those images, slice by slice, and meld them together with software specifically designed for that purpose.

If you've ever had a CT Scan you know that they build a 3D image of your body part by putting together thousands of slices of images. This is much the same process however I can not see inside the subject of course.