27 Image Stack Jumper
Oct 4, 2022 23:13:18 #
Here's one I ran thru the software tonight. Phidippus pacosauritius. 27 image handheld at F/9 at a bit of an angle.. Probably could have been 30 deep but hey, still a little rusty. I only have a few moments before they start running around again. I just got my first prescription of glasses so I'm tackling stacking again. Been using readers for about 10 yrs just wasn't cutting it any more. Anyway long day will try and post a few at a time tomorrow.
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Oct 5, 2022 00:16:12 #
Oct 5, 2022 06:13:20 #
martinfisherphoto wrote:
Here's one I ran thru the software tonight. Phidippus pacosauritius. 27 image handheld at F/9 at a bit of an angle.. Probably could have been 30 deep but hey, still a little rusty. I only have a few moments before they start running around again. I just got my first prescription of glasses so I'm tackling stacking again. Been using readers for about 10 yrs just wasn't cutting it any more. Anyway long day will try and post a few at a time tomorrow.
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Oct 5, 2022 08:43:16 #
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Oct 5, 2022 10:25:13 #
kpmac wrote:
Beautiful. Why handheld?
Hand held because the subject is alive and moving around.. You have to wait till the subject pauses and takes a break. If the subject is situated in a position that you can shoot you take your stack and if all is in your favor the subject won't move for at least 45 seconds. You can spend several hours or entire days getting a proper stack. I can nail the shots but many of the stacks will have a terrible background or something else in the image not pleasing to the eye.. I can't just stage the jumper where I would like it to sit and to pose them like you do when shooting portraits. It's about patience and being ready to fire when you get the opportunity.. If it was easy then that would take the fun out of it. Zerene stacking software requires me to take each image front to back or back to front in order for the software to work properly. With photoshop you just rock back and forth and fire off a bunch of images and then the software does all the work aligning and stacking. I could do the same with Zerene and painstakingly put the images in order but then I would not know if I missed a plane of focus. I use F/9 at 1.5 to 2 times magnification which is paper thin. I see and shot each plane of focus as I work thru the image. Takes about 45 seconds for me to get 25 to 30 images in succession. If I had a dollar for every time a subject moved before I finished a stack I would be rich. Patience and practice.. I've done this so many times it comes automatic. I was just in North Dakota with a friend and shooting stacks. He had never seen it done. He said he could not tell I was moving forward as I took my images. 25 or more shots and I only move forward about 1/2 to 5/8 of an inch
Oct 5, 2022 10:33:01 #
Oct 5, 2022 11:34:40 #
Oct 5, 2022 19:36:33 #
Amazing! I had tried my hand at stacking jumpers, but can't manage as many frames.
One trick is to give them something to hide in and then they might sit a bit longer. I use a small pill cup (about 1" wide at front), lined on the inside with a leaf, held by double-stick tape. You can encourage the spider to walk into that, and sometimes they feel secure enough to just sit and look out into the world while pictures are taken.
One trick is to give them something to hide in and then they might sit a bit longer. I use a small pill cup (about 1" wide at front), lined on the inside with a leaf, held by double-stick tape. You can encourage the spider to walk into that, and sometimes they feel secure enough to just sit and look out into the world while pictures are taken.
Oct 5, 2022 20:01:15 #
Oct 6, 2022 07:35:48 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Amazing! I had tried my hand at stacking jumpers, but can't manage as many frames.
One trick is to give them something to hide in and then they might sit a bit longer. I use a small pill cup (about 1" wide at front), lined on the inside with a leaf, held by double-stick tape. You can encourage the spider to walk into that, and sometimes they feel secure enough to just sit and look out into the world while pictures are taken.
One trick is to give them something to hide in and then they might sit a bit longer. I use a small pill cup (about 1" wide at front), lined on the inside with a leaf, held by double-stick tape. You can encourage the spider to walk into that, and sometimes they feel secure enough to just sit and look out into the world while pictures are taken.
Hey Mark, yeah I've done the old curled leaf trick back when. After awhile it becomes the same shot time and time again. I still use leaves from but always looking for something different. Each jumper is different, some will chill out and some just wonder around for days. Not to mention they can sit but also move their palps or adjust a leg
Oct 7, 2022 07:16:40 #
Oct 9, 2022 18:05:33 #
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