I have an "invention" in mind where one or more off-camera flash units are mounted on ones' head. They are adjusted to be in good position when the camera is brought up to look thru the viewfinder. Now this would save weight on the camera, certainly, but it would be better if no one sees you wearing...

Here are focus stacked pictures of a female, and then a male funnel web spider ( Agelenopsis sp,) The female is the same one I had used to photograph spider 'eye shine' recently. Since she could stay in her webbed retreat while on the dining room table, she was quite happy to just sit for me while I...

I 'lean' toward the marbled orb weaver, Araneus marmoreus. But many of the orb weavers in this genus are hard to tell apart based on their markings since their colors are so variable. I have thought that one way to gain confidence in their ID from field markings is to look at the underside of the ab...

Excellent. All of it.

Thank you! It looks like I've some researching to do when I can get to it.

I was anticipating that the idea suggested would still produce artifacts and work. But to add to this: Would slabbing help in reducing the work load of painting a solid foreground over the subject-less background? That way you would have maybe 10 slabs to use to paint in the foreground over the tran...

There are several folks who mount a single flash on the hot shoe, and then use a diffuser that directs the light forward and downward. There are definite advantages to shooting 'flash forward', but the armatures for doing that also add to the weight and awkwardness of a rig.

I suppose it must be as suggested -- very translucent 'ghost - like' of scales.

Very good. I found one of these many years ago. They are big.

Could the problem be helped in some circumstances by also taking some pictures of the background without the foreground subject? I was wondering if adding that to the stack might then give the program (and the human who does touching up) information about what to put into the background adjacent to ...

Very nice pictures!

That is exceptionally nice! What machine would provide handheld stacks of a subject hanging in the breeze?

Always terrific!

A handsome beast! Well done!

Pretty sure this is a katydid. You can see the sword-like ovipositor in the rear.
That has really compelling lighting. Very nice looking picture.