Tiny Wildflower Stack 1

Forehead

First, I had to construct a makeshift macro rail, work the bugs out mounting the camera just right. Then, using a 25mm eyepiece off of a Meade 4-inch reflecting telescope attached upside down on the inner lens barrel of a Canon Powershot A520 (such an impressive-sounding name for such a small camera), and setting the manual focus as close as it would go...along with f/8 fixed aperture at ISO 50, I started shooting.

After that, I FINALLY used the CombineZM focus stacking software I had downloaded two months ago.

For comparisons, I'll have one of the frames as a before-image, with the stacked image after that.

I think the software has some potential, but what do I know!

Here's a "before":

Forehead

...and here's the "after":

Skippy

Forehead wrote:

First, I had to construct a makeshift macro rail, work the bugs out mounting the camera just right. Then, using a 25mm eyepiece off of a Meade 4-inch reflecting telescope attached upside down on the inner lens barrel of a Canon Powershot A520 (such an impressive-sounding name for such a small camera), and setting the manual focus as close as it would go...along with f/8 fixed aperture at ISO 50, I started shooting.

After that, I FINALLY used the CombineZM focus stacking software I had downloaded two months ago.

For comparisons, I'll have one of the frames as a before-image, with the stacked image after that.

I think the software has some potential, but what do I know!

Here's a "before":

Gosh yes one can clearly see the difference in the before and after effects of stacking ..... how many images did you stack for the after result ??
...... Skippy (Australia)

Awais Yaqub

Wow clear difference
thanks for sharing