RTH Macro Photos

Here's a couple. I'm still learning camera/lens quirks.

I am absolutely loving this new lens - the color rendering on it is amazing.  I am hardly doing any post-processing at all.

Here are some experiments with a simple vase of flowers on my island:

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1. Further out shot to show the subject.




2-4.  Zoomed in of the same.








5.  Another flower




6.  Flower #3 further out.




7-11.  Same flower.













12.  Random leaf on the grass today

I'm still learning the focus patterns for sure.  At F2.8, there is such a small depth of focus, the subject matter really needs to be parallel.

I'm not sure what you mean by focus stacking - can you explain more?  Thanks!

thanks!

Definitely.

Beth summarized it well.



Essentially, you can take several images at as many focal distances as you want and then digitally combine the images. For example, you can take your first shot focusing on the near point of your subject. Then you adjust the focus to slightly overlap your previous focal plane. You keep doing that (adjusting nothing but the focus) until you have captured images of each “slice” of your subject. Once you have done that, you need to digitally combine those images into a single image. You can do it using Photoshop, as well as many other image processing apps.

Many newer cameras (maybe around 5 years and newer) allow you to do it in camera and can automate the entire process in a single shutter click. I have a point and shoot Olympus TG-5 Tough that will do it in camera. That is the camera I have used for all of the macros I have posted, many of which used focus stacking.

In-camera or not, it is an amazing feature, especially when you are taking macros of more three-dimensional subjects and/or need to use a lens wide open.

Here is more info from Adobe’s website: creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/focus-stacking-in-photoshop

I will take a few shots tonight with and without focus stacking to better show what can be achieved.

Here are a few more examples of focus stacking. I just grabbed the first shot in my previous post and then realized some of these may be better examples, so here they are. For each pair, I will show the single focal point first and then the focus stacked version.

Olympus TG-4 point and shoot without SF - and handheld !(effective image stabilization)SF shoots should be from tripod.



with SF and also hand held



In time most DSLR's and likely point and shoots should have stack focus.

How is this different than just changing the aperture? I can do f2.8-20 but I like the bokeh with 2.8