This is the face view of a long-departed dragonfly that my grandson found by their shed that he gave to me today. It was dried, curled up, missing several legs, and quite dirty. Fortunately, its head and wings were still intact, and after spending time cleaning it, I staged it for a focus stacking session.

I choose the optics for the sessions based on the size of the specimen being able to fill the frame of the camera with what I want to showcase which in this case was a reversed mounted 50mm f/2.8 enlarger lens set at f/5.6 mounted on a partially extended bellow.

This session consists of 203 images taken at a step distance of 35um with constant diffused LED illumination and processed with Zerene Stacker