First attempt image stacking.

[Arwin]

Hello,

I'm New to the macro forum.

I'm 28 years old and from Holland.

Photographer for about 11 years. And recently started agean with macro photography.

Now beginnen with high magnification macro en trying to stack.

Here my First attempt.

Greetings Arwin

[canonian]

Hallo Arwin, Welkom op het Forum.

Very nice fly.
Can you tell us how you made this macro?
Equipment, lens used, flash etc.

[Arwin]

Thank you.

Camera: Canon 5D mark III
Lens: Tamron 180 mm macro with reverse Canon 50 mm in front of it and 12 mm extention tube.
Flash: Yongnuo macro ring flash with home made flash diffuser.

Stack of 30 images. Shot on f.8.0 1/160. Sec iso:160

Stacking with Zerene Stacken.

Greetings Arwin

[canonian]

Shot on f.8.0

Was that the aperture used on the Tamron or the Canon?
Did you do the ''wide open and unmount the lens" method on the 50mm?

[Arwin]

Hello,

Thè Tamron 180 mm was at f.8.0
The canon 50 mm was wide open so i dident Do the appeture lock thing on the camera.

Greetings Arwin

[Carmen]

Hello, . . . my First attempt.

Welcome aboard Arwin! I consider myself a beginner also.

Thank you for sharing and for technical details. For a first attempt, this looks great! At least to me, the lighting looks very natural.

Interesting optical train: it never would have ocurred to me!

The 50mm is a good lens - at least in the manufacturer's specified range. But for more magnification, it may be worthwhile to investigate alternatives.

I understand the tamron 180mm is a great lens - particularly in the field. The long working distance is useful for skittish insects. What do you think? Do you like it?

[Arwin]

Hello,

Thè combi of these lenses works fine. Its not a mega setup. But the working distense is really short and its about 5:1 magnification. So working on tripod is nessisery.

The Tamron 180 mm is really good. I like it much, but it needs praktice to shoot handhold.

Greetings Arwin

[Arwin]

Sorry. With This combi it is about 4:1 magnification.

Greetings Arwin

[rjlittlefield]

Arwin, welcome aboard!

The image looks good, but as shown here there is a lot of moiré pattern in the eyes. This is what causes the "contour lines" across the surface of the eye.

Partly this is the result of making the image so small. At the moment what you have posted is only 516 pixels wide. Our forum allows up to 1024 pixels wide. (There is also a maximum file length of 300 KB. When saving as JPEG, reduce the compression quality as needed to make the file short enough.)

With this image, I suspect that just using the maximum 1024 pixels would take care of the moiré pattern. However, if you still have problems getting those patterns, then you might want to read Reducing moiré effects in downsizing for web posting.

--Rik

[Rontrus]

Hi,
this is an old post, but maybe somebody is still interested in what could be achieved with the Tamron 180-mm-macro lens at low costs. These images were shot with a Rodenstock Rodagon 2.8/50 (non-APO, 60 Euro used) mounted reversed in front of the Tamron 180. The fly was neither cleaned nor retouched or properly positioned. It just served as a quick model for some lighting and lens tests.
The full image:

And a 100-%-crop:

The Tamron was not set to infinity to reduce the fairly strong vignette a bit (in this image the vignette does not work too bad though).
Other settings:
Nikon D750
Rodagon: f=4
Tamron: f=5.6
Flash
Stack of 130 shots

Best regards
Rontrus

[MarkSturtevant]

Greetings, Arwin. I could be wrong, but I wonder if you would get equally good if not better results by just reverse mounting the 50mm onto extension tubes. Pre-setting the aperture to be slightly stopped down. And leave the big macro lens out of it.

[Adalbert]

Hello Arwin,
Welcome to the forum!
You must be the youngest :-)
Beautiful photo!
Best ADi

[rjlittlefield]

Um, Arwin's post was 7 years ago.

The thread was recently revived by Rontrus, who posted about another application of the same type lens.

--Rik