Nice shots - the blueberries look great and I love the dragonfly on the
coneflower. Interesting use of stack focus for the truck cab, landscapes
and beach scenes. I had not thought of using it for landscapes but that
would be interesting - no more stopping down for DOF, no more
diffraction compromised images! Come fall, I may actually use up all
that Porta 160 120 film I have in the freezer...
I was at the other end of the great lakes last week - spent a few days
in Chicago, one just hanging around the lakefront. Not the same as those
nice empty Lake Superior beaches. Shot 14 rolls of Tri-X, just starting
to look at the results now, a week later.
Mark
On 8/12/2013 10:34 AM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Last month Mark C. shared his first experiments with focus stacking, using
dragonflies as his subjects:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/blog6.php/2013/07/06/stack-focusing-dragonflies-in-the-field
So I was in a photo workshop this last week, the instructor kept encouraging us to try
focus stacking. I tend to be skeptical of "manipulation" techniques (e.g., HDR)
but given Mark's results, I did shoot several series of images with focus stacking in
mind. On arriving back home I purchased/downloaded Helicon Focus to process the images
and see what I had captured. When I get time I will work on my other insect shots and
re-do these two - at first glance they seem to have potential. Below is a link to the
first quick attempts. Being a contrarian, I did not restrict myself to macros of insects
for the experiments, and I think that the truck cab interior is the best of the bunch.
With the beach shots, the variation in wave pattern from shot to shot caused some funny
looking patterns when the images were merged, so I did not use all of the images I had in
those series.
Note that the original RAW images were "dumped" into Helicon as they came out
of the camera - no color balancing, sharpening, etc. (There is a Lightroom plug-in that
makes this process quite simple.) The images shown here are as they emerged from Helicon
- I have not yet done any additional work on color-balance, etc. with the merged images.
All of these shot on a tripod, all with natural light.
http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p684646393
Comments welcome.
stan
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