So, it happened this past weekend - one of the most beautiful weddings I've ever been to and I got to shoot it!! It was quite a learning experience - I found that my beloved Z70-200 lens does much better in daylight than in the challenging light of our sanctuary - the shots were ok, but softer than I would have liked. I found that when posing the bridal couple on a step they should have positioned themselves toward the back of said step - the bride ended up looking like she was levitating 6" off the ground! I was able to salvage an otherwise decent shot by giving it a 3/4 crop, but lesson learned. I think my overall score for the ceremony would be about a 7/10 - I am definitely NOT a professional, nor do I play one on TV!

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