Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-27-2023, 05:19 PM
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Butterfly weed, actual pixel crop. K-1 & 200mm, ISO 3200 due to breeze |
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-19-2022, 07:11 PM
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Basil Update. It was necessary to crop the image above as the cluster was aging, and petals browning. I was surprised that the stem produced another set of flowers
beneath the first.
Since I had a pristine cluster of flowers, I did a second stack. They only lasted a couple of days. The tiny leaf pointing to the left at the top of the stem is the same
leaf pointing to the back in the image above.
459 image stack on manual rack & pinion rail. Cropped a bit of stacking artifact off the bottom. Second image is actual pixel crop. K1 & 200mm. Xpost to macro. Basil Number 2 Basil Number 2 - Actual Pixel Crop |
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-10-2022, 06:40 PM
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Basil Flowers. Shot at 1x. Original crop 3800x3800. 144 image stack in Zerene, PP in Faststone. Basil Flowers |
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-09-2022, 09:49 AM
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Something similar happened to me the other day, only it was lens condensation caused by going outside from a air conditioned house. ---------- Post added 08-09-22 at 12:03 PM ----------
Story of my life...except for me it's live vew magnified. Miss those 18 year old eyes! :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-08-2021, 08:22 PM
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I have some climbing beans. Took these this afternoon after picking green beans. Twenty minutes later, we had thunder and showers to provide some much needed water!
These are a couple shots of the flower buds. The first is not stacked, the second is a fourteen image stack.
The orginal crops are each 3200 pixels high. Climbing Bean Flower by Roger Knief Climbing Bean Flowers - Stack by Roger Knief ---------- Post added 08-08-21 at 10:54 PM ---------- Taken after the beans, these are likely pretty bedraggled after the rain. Bunch of Tiny Flowers by Roger Knief |
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-18-2019, 03:25 PM
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Especially like your capture of the first yellow flower. I've tried several times (unsuccessfully) to get a nice image and found that the bright yellow waxy surface is a tough subject. Well done.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-17-2019, 09:50 PM
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Butterfly Weed. Not so tiny when enlarged!
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, so diffraction is likely an issue. 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 a 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 (different year, regular macro lens) 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.
Xposted to Macro. Butterfly Weed Ant on Butterfly Weed Butterfly weed with photo-bomber |