More dewdrops on dragon

frons

The morning started with scattered frost, and I had to search hard to find a single specimen to photograph. No frost on the dragonfly, but lots of tiny dewdrops.

#1 Sympetrum corruptum 3-shot stack made with Zerene.


#2 5-shot stack made with Zerene. Up close, there are artifacts around some of the drops' edges. Maybe not enough slices?


#3 3-shot stack made with Zerene.


#4 Only a 2-shot stack, after it had warmed up a bit and she cleared off her eyes.

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful series- looks like the stacks worked pretty well here. It's fairly common to get OOF halos around high contrast edges when stacking esp with bright droplets. Again these can be repaired by copying back onto the stack from the originals.
I actually often stack shots with droplets in by hand again using the repair brush in photoshop to transfer in focus parts from one shot to another.
Brian v.

Photographer

Awesome!

I'd love to try stacking. It seems uber complicated to me though.

tortillatorture

wow..thats some really great shots!! a beautiful world...

GOLDENORFE

great shots, would love to find one looking like that:D
phil