Some recent Macro shots

Lord Vetinari

Just a few shots from the last few days.
Comments/critique welcome.

Headshot of Hawker Dragonfly Focus stacked.



Apple maggot in orbit



Dive Bombing Hoverfly



Gluttonous Spider- focus stacked



Another focus stacked Hawker dragonfly



Lastly a Spider clock (just a cut and paste job)

John Mueller

You are the Macro Master Dude
Excellent stuff

Lord Vetinari

John Mueller wrote:

You are the Macro Master Dude
Excellent stuff

Thanks John for the compliment
Don't think I'm quite a black belt yet...
Brian V.

Hauer

Stunning.... as usual!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers- Herman

Techman1

Brian,

Great job, those are really cool. I'm not a macro photographer, so this may be common knowledge to you all, but what does "Focus Stacked" mean. Is this creating layers in photoshop or some process done in the camera?

Thanks in advance and again super images!

Fred

Lord Vetinari

Herman Auer wrote:

Stunning.... as usual!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers- Herman

Thanks Herman

Techman1 wrote:

Brian,

Great job, those are really cool. I'm not a macro photographer, so this may be common knowledge to you all, but what does "Focus Stacked" mean. Is this creating layers in photoshop or some process done in the camera?

Thanks in advance and again super images!

Fred

Thanks Fred.
Focus stacking is taking several pics of the subject at different focus depths and then using software (I use combinez5 which is freeware) to stack the images so the resulting image has a much greater DOF than it should have. One of the problems with macro shots is the DOF is very narrow
Hope that makes sense

I've just put an example in the macrophotography hints thread here
http://www.digitalgrin.com/showpost.php?p=156830&postcount=30

Brian V.

Techman1

Brian,

That makes perfect sense! Thank you for responding so quickly. I looked at the thread you included, but I couldn't see the new images you had linked there?

Anyway, thanks again.

Fred

Lord Vetinari

Techman1 wrote:

Brian,

That makes perfect sense! Thank you for responding so quickly. I looked at the thread you included, but I couldn't see the new images you had linked there?

Anyway, thanks again.

Fred

Odd - they are there when I look (after clearing my internet cache).

BigAl

Neat shots as usual Brian. I especially like the first dragon

regards
alan

gluwater

I really think you have figured out a way to hypnotize the insects in your back yard. They just line up and wait for you to take their picture, like picture day at school. Those shots of the dragon are excellent. I can't get nearly that close. I have a couple recent shots of dragons taken with my new 70-200 that I still need to process and post. That lens has been keeping me busy lately but I haven't forgotten my macro.

Nick

Lord Vetinari

BigAl wrote:

Neat shots as usual Brian. I especially like the first dragon

regards
alan

Thanks Alan

gluwater wrote:

I really think you have figured out a way to hypnotize the insects in your back yard. They just line up and wait for you to take their picture, like picture day at school. Those shots of the dragon are excellent. I can't get nearly that close. I have a couple recent shots of dragons taken with my new 70-200 that I still need to process and post. That lens has been keeping me busy lately but I haven't forgotten my macro.

Nick

Thanks Nick.
It's only recently that I've been able to get near the large Hawker dragonflies- maybe they are getting old

Brian V.

gluwater

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Nick.
It's only recently that I've been able to get near the large Hawker dragonflies- maybe they are getting old

Brian V.

Maybe they have just finally accepted you as one of their own :giggle

Nick