Focus Stacked Image of a Spider: This is one of the Orb Weaver Spiders that my son had collected and gifted to me that now reside in our freezer. I brought it out this evening for...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is one of the Orb Weaver Spiders that my son had collected and gifted to me that now reside in our freezer. I brought it out this evening for inspection and to stage it for a focus stacking session. It's been in there for about six months now and it appears to be holding up well.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Oie. Hairy dude!

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Longshadow wrote:

Oie. Hairy dude!

Thanks, I'd settle for a head of wild hairs so I wish that I knew its secret.

grathbun Loc: Placerville, California

Reminds me of one of my relatives!

How extensively can focus stacking be done? For instance, if you had a frontal shot of something like a grasshopper with its whole body in the picture, could you theoretically have the whole thing in focus?

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is one of the Orb Weaver Spiders that my son had collected and gifted to me that now reside in our freezer. I brought it out this evening for inspection and to stage it for a focus stacking session. It's been in there for about six months now and it appears to be holding up well.

A real beauty

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

grathbun wrote:

Reminds me of one of my relatives!

How extensively can focus stacking be done? For instance, if you had a frontal shot of something like a grasshopper with its whole body in the picture, could you theoretically have the whole thing in focus?

Yes, that would be the case and here's one that I did as an example of a "Pygmy Grasshopper" which was a special find for me.

The difference of course is the amount of magnification that is used. The spider in this post was taken at 5X magnification in a focus stacked session. The grasshopper was a 1X magnification focus stacking session.

I make my decisions based on what I want to showcase, what view I will stage it in, what I want the point of interest to be and how much of it that I want to be in sharp focus knowing that the more that is in focus the larger the number of images it will take in the stack.

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sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

joecichjr wrote:

A real beauty

Thanks, and I understand that beauty is quite subjective.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

More of your incredible work, Gary!

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

UTMike wrote:

More of your incredible work, Gary!

Thanks, UTMike. Another session of passing time with the camera.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

sippyjug104 wrote:

Thanks, UTMike. Another session of passing time with the camera.

Where better to pass our time?

grathbun Loc: Placerville, California

Thanks for your reply. What I had in mind was if the insect was facing the camera, but the whole body was still visible, extending to the back. Could you still get the back end in focus if it was, say, a couple of inches behind the head? From what you've said, I assume that you could, but it would probably take a LOT of images.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is one of the Orb Weaver Spiders that my son had collected and gifted to me that now reside in our freezer. I brought it out this evening for inspection and to stage it for a focus stacking session. It's been in there for about six months now and it appears to be holding up well.

Another fantastic image Gary

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

No worse for the wear. Excellent image with color, light, sharpness, etc.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Manglesphoto wrote:

Another fantastic image Gary

Thanks for viewing and for the reply.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

JeffDavidson wrote:

No worse for the wear. Excellent image with color, light, sharpness, etc.

Thanks, Jeff. Keeping the furry and hairy ones in the freezer appears to work well although there is some dehydration of the spider abdomens however I don't pose them in that direction.