[ivanvernon]

The FA645 120/4.0 Macro doubles as a pretty handy portrait lens.

Nice shots. The 120 macro definitely captures all the freckles! Great portrait lens for those photographers who aim to show everything as it is, but some of the ladies may scream and run away from you!

[Sandy Hancock]

Nice shots. The 120 macro definitely captures all the freckles! Great portrait lens for those photographers who aim to show everything as it is, but some of the ladies may scream and run away from you!

Indeed. It is certainly plenty sharp enough wide open. Stopping down might require extra work from the make-up department, or a lot of smoothing in PP (which I'm not a fan of).

[simple1]

Gaboon viper

KP with Vivitar 100/2.8 Macro

[edri]

Ice and Stars (KP+SMC Pentax-FA 100mm F3.5 Macro)

[Canada_Rockies]

Ice and Stars (KP+SMC Pentax-FA 100mm F3.5 Macro)

Nice capture!

[simple1]

Another shot of the Gaboon viper

KP with Vivitar 100/2.8 Macro

[WPRESTO]

Oly 60mm f2.8 macro

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[Stagnant]

Pentax K-3 II, SMC Pentax-DA 35mm F2.8 Macro Limited, F16, 4 Seconds.


Focus stacking 4 images, each of them was shot using pixel-shift.

[Canada_Rockies]

Pentax K-3 II, SMC Pentax-DA 35mm F2.8 Macro Limited, F16, 4 Seconds.


Focus stacking 4 images, each of them was shot using pixel-shift.

Very well done. I have never used focus stacking; I guess it's about time.

[Stagnant]

Very well done. I have never used focus stacking; I guess it's about time.

Thanks ! In this particular case the process was very time consuming. First of all I had to find to carefully position the shell, so that it would cover as much space in the frame as possible and at the same time would meet the requirement of a minimal focusing distance for this particular lens. Refocusing was not a big deal and after a couple of tests I determined that I can trust AF on that.
So, I got 4 pixel-shift images. My main RAW converter DxO Photolab 3 does not recognise the extra info in the files, so I had to use SilkyPix Developer Studio Pro 9 to convert RAWs into RGB images, in this case TIFF. Because I prefer the way DxO handles the images (lens profiles, volume deformation, smart lighting, etc.) I did only the basic adjustments in SP, before converting the files to TIFF. But you cannot simply open the resulting files in DxO, as it won't recognise the lens model. Apparently SP strips off some EXIF information when developing the images. So I used EXIF Tool GUI. I developed those same images in DxO without any adjustments. It resulted in 4 TIFF files. I copied all the metadata from these files into the pixel-shift TIFF files. I opened the updated files in DxO again and voila, it recognises the lens and the camera. I adjust all of the images to my liking using identical set of corrections for each. Then I realised that the lights changed between the shots, so I had to re-adjust individual exposures to achieve a uniform luminosity across the series of images. The process of focus stacking in Photoshop was pretty straight-forward. Afterwards, I only cropped the image.
As you see lots of time spend to make one single image

[Canada_Rockies]

As you see lots of time spend to make one single image

With a really fine result.

[Jan178]

flake
11 shots stacked

SMC Pentax-FA 100mm F2.8 Macro on K-5

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SMC Pentax-FA 100mm F2.8 Macro on K-5

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Lovely shot.

[Jan178]

Lovely shot.

Thank you!

[edom31]

SMC Pentax 50/4 Macro



Used the in-camera flash for this one, diffracting it with the lens cap.