I really like this picture.

The way I see it is that a stacked image is an interpretation of a series of photographs of a scene, not the scene itself. While one can use various algorithms to choose the sharpest parts of the scene, each method can introduce it's own kind of unwanted stacking artifact. These can often be edited ...

Thanks Troels. Thanks Lou. Your thread of the spider that looks like a frog that sort of drifted into a discussion about how prey animals could have a better chance of survival by deceiving predators about which way they will escape really caught my imagination and now I look out for this phenomena ...

Here are some pictures of Stugeta bowkeri tearei or Bowker's marbled sapphire taken on the Magaliesberg near Pretoria. All three pictures are freehand stacks taken in burst mode moving slowly backwards and then stacked in zerene stacker. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6547_20171122113...

Great picture! I like how the background adds interest without taking attention away from the subject.

Here's a picture of a robber fly that caught a moth near the top of the Magaliesberg a short distance west of Pretoria. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6547_20171120231132_ZS_retouched_2.jpg 1/640th F4. 19 shots rocking slowly backwards. Robber flies can make good "field stacks", becau...

Stunning picture! The dew has such a fine texture. Do you know where the insects in your area generally roost, or do you just get up early and see what you can find? Congratulations.

Stephen

Lou, thanks for clarifying that. How very like Olympus! Extremely well thought out and practical if you know what you are doing and maddeningly counter-intuitive if you don't! When I was trying out that feature I felt caught between deleting many completely out of focus shots and not getting the who...

Yes indeed, I can't imagine that I would buy a new camera again which does not have focus bracketing. On the other hand, people should not feel that it is so difficult that they don't even try until they have a camera with this feature. I spent about a year wanting to do this kind of photography wit...

Thank you all very much for your encouraging remarks! I'm amazed at how well zerene stacker aligns handheld images. I'm quite surprised this technique is not more popular as it allows one to work without a flash as well as to throw untidy backgrounds deeply out of focus.

Stephen

Hi all This is my first post, so advice would be valued. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6547_20171202110518_ZS_retouched_1.jpg Six shots in burst mode moving slowly backwards and then stacked with zerene Stacker mostly Dmap and touched up with the individual pictures where there were ...