First stack in 7 months

daemonoropsis · Post by **daemonoropsis** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:43 pm

Hi all

I havent touched my camera in about 7 months but last week I decided to reassemble my setup and give it a ago.

Since my last posts I have moved to a new home and apparently quite a few lacewings had decided to winter in our new cellar where I caught one.

First stack with my reassembled setup, 10x, 273 shots, last shot stopped down:

This was also my first time opening photoshop in 7 months so forgive any obvious retouching flaws.

Pizzazz · Post by **Pizzazz** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:05 pm

Hi

OK. I'm pulling my hair out when I try to get similar results!!
How do you get the clarity in the eye? What lens/setup do you
use??

Continuous light or flash?

cool shot, ESPECIALLY since you were Rip Van Winkle!!

Mike

abpho · Post by **abpho** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:27 pm

Very clean stack. Those eyes are intense.

daemonoropsis · Post by **daemonoropsis** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:57 am

Pizzazz wrote:Hi

OK. I'm pulling my hair out when I try to get similar results!!
How do you get the clarity in the eye? What lens/setup do you
use??

Continuous light or flash?

cool shot, ESPECIALLY since you were Rip Van Winkle!!

Mike

Hi Mike

I use a Mitutoyo 10x on a Canon 200mm 2.8L, I lit it with one ikea LED from the right through a tube diffuser.

I always input/output sharpen in PS and I made some local adjustments to the eye but not a lot. The PMAX stack had some decent contrast in the eye already.

Morten

jazzper · Post by **jazzper** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:25 am

Godt at se, at du er tilbage Morten - velkommen.
Jeg har ofte tænkt, hvad der mon var blevet af dig!

daemonoropsis · Post by **daemonoropsis** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:39 am

jazzper wrote:Godt at se, at du er tilbage Morten - velkommen.
Jeg har ofte tænkt, hvad der mon var blevet af dig!

Hej Per

Tak

Jeg gik ret meget ned med flaget sidste sommer så har været ret isoleret mht til nettet men jeg håber at komme i gang igen denne sommer.
Er flyttet ud af kbh så har meget kortere til nogle lidt mere spændende naturområder end jeg før har haft adgang til og forhåbentligt mere tid til at komme ud i dem:)

Morten

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:01 pm

Really spectacular photo - I also love the way the eye with its texture and color was illuminated and photographed.

273 photos in a stack is a *lot* of work!

daemonoropsis · Post by **daemonoropsis** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:29 am

DQE wrote:Really spectacular photo - I also love the way the eye with its texture and color was illuminated and photographed.

Thank you

DQE wrote:273 photos in a stack is a *lot* of work!

Most of the process was automated so not really

stackshot was controlled by my tablet and the stack is just one big pmax with a few select slabs