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06-16-2019, 04:48 AM - 6 Likes   #3376
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Tokina 90mm f2.5 macro, the oldest lens of mine that is still in use.

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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
Tokina 90mm f2.5 macro, the oldest lens of mine that is still in use.
Nice image, Walt!

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Butterfly Weed.


Got a Chinese Zhong Yi Freewalker 4-4.5x F2 macro from B&H around Christmas time. DOF is quite shallow. Most people (including me) will not get much in the line of usable images unless they focus stack.

This is one of the first stacks taken with the lens. Unfortunately I did not record the aperture value. Probably at 5.6 to 8. The manual recommends taking images at f2. This was taken at 4x on the K-1. Approximately 70 images. To really get a sharp image, one needs an automated rig. This is at the limit of what I can do with hand adjusted macro rail, so take that into account when you look at the image.

The second image (crop) is of a different butterfly weed flower with an ant approximately one-half cm long.

The third image is of the same flower as the first image, and shows what happens when an ant photo-bombs (ruins) my stack!


I knew I had a few dust spots. But not the extent of it. High Magnification lenses will highlight every single dust spot, and leave bad trails when stacked. I opened the stack in camera raw, healed 30-40 spots, synchronized spot removal, saved the stack then re-assembled in Zerene Stacker. I missed one spot that I had to clone out later.




Butterfly Weed


Ant on Butterfly Weed


Butterfly weed with photo-bomber
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Two images from another cloudy day at Walton Lake, Milton Keynes. The Common Blue Damselfly is probably the archetypal British damselfly, seen all over the country. The Harlequin Ladybird is an invasive species that threatens most if not all of our native species. It was first recorded in England fifteen years ago, but is now widespread.

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I like this time of year on the Kerrowdown Estate.

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Continuing the theme on focus stacking in the field, the image below is a "short stack" of seven frames shot hand-held and assembled in Photoshop.

I use AF.S to lock focus, then deliberately sway forward whilst observing focus and continuously taking shots on the Hi setting, moving from top of the stack to bottom as I do so.

There is some planning to the shot. The Orb-Weaver is always going to keep very still and the rose stamens are an excellent register point for the stacking software.

You do need to take care of your breathing. Although the forward movement is only 3mm - 6mm, it is easier to do this whilst exhaling slightly. Just relax....
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Having said that I avoid using the built-in flash on my K-S2, here's an occasion when I chose to.

Day-flying moths such as this Scarlet Tiger are most active towards dusk. If they land (and they rarely do), they tend to stay put for quite some time. You can literally clear away small twigs, bits of grass and any leaves that might cast a shadow, as long as your own shadow doesn't fall across the insect, rather like a golfer is allowed to clear debris as long as they don't move the ball.
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From my step-son Rick's garden.

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In a Cretan Garden

K-S2 and D-FA 100mm non-WR. The dynamic range in this bright sun is a bit much for the K-S2, it seems. Lots more work than usual in PP, especially to rescue the highlights, so I'll dial in more underexposure for the rest of the trip here.
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