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by stevekale
Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:33 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Found this pen of starling?
Replies: 3
Views: 1439

I was going to say Jay immediately - and then I scrolled down to see that you had answered your own puzzle. A feather admired by (fishing) fly tiers.
by stevekale
Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:00 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Symmetrical Midge
Replies: 2
Views: 1022

The stillwater trout's core food in pupa, nymph and adult form. Nice!
by stevekale
Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:54 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Tachinid Fly Head in Stereo
Replies: 12
Views: 2617

Thanks Rik.

NU, great and inspiring image.
by stevekale
Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:48 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Tachinid Fly Head in Stereo
Replies: 12
Views: 2617

They are lower facial-ridge bristles and they appear to pass in front of the posterior edge of antennal segment #3 :) and then he takes a deep breath... :lol: I believe that this is caused by the PMax stack "seeing behind" the antenna because at the time those bristles were in focus the antenna was...
by stevekale
Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:35 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: ZS and dMap stereos - set contrast threshold once?
Replies: 2
Views: 2476

ZS and dMap stereos - set contrast threshold once?

Is there a way to do this? I guess I could do one run, identify the desired threshold, stop the run and then go into preferences and set "use preset contrast threshold" and restart but...when running stereo pairs it would seem appropriate that ZS only ask for this level from the user once. (It could...
by stevekale
Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:20 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Tachinid Fly Head in Stereo
Replies: 12
Views: 2617

What a superb stereo! I was going to post some of my trials but I will now hide a little longer and keep at it! I do have one question about some "ghosting" in one part of the image because it is something I experienced in my trials. I don't know how to reference the particular part of the fly's ana...
by stevekale
Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:24 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Harold's Pot Pourri Images Re-visited -- with his Permission
Replies: 8
Views: 4366

Users of LR4 and ACR may well be interested in reading the posts of Jeff Schewe in these 3 threads: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=62304.0 http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=59706.0 http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=64285.0 Pixelgen...
by stevekale
Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:58 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Harold's Pot Pourri Images Re-visited -- with his Permission
Replies: 8
Views: 4366

The best sharpening software I have found is Photokit Sharpener 2 by Pixelgenius. The line-up at Pixelgenius is an impressive one.
by stevekale
Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:13 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

Absolutely LOVING DMap! I've not had reason to use PMax or any part of a PMax output yet. Bubbles moving around the frame? DMap fixes that. Need a clean background? Run DMap at 98%, obliterating any annoying stuff, use as base for editing then paint in main image from conventional DMap. Great stuff ...
by stevekale
Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:33 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

When I select {method} {mininp:4}-{maxinp} from the list in preferences for output image names I get a filename with (e.g.) DMap, then the last 5 digits in the first filename, - , then the last 5 digits in the 9th filename. So if my filenames are Nymph-2-x.tif where x goes from 1 to 47, my output na...
by stevekale
Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:48 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

BTW here is another example of what I've been doing lately. Nothing near as fancy as what you guys do! I had trouble with the two top, rear legs, tail and left antenna moving while capturing the frames. The images aren't as sharp as I would like but I'll get there. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/70685392/E...
by stevekale
Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:18 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

Thanks for the suggestion. I've not yet tried scaling and rotation off although I am not sure how that would help. The current alignment method works well if the entire image is moving but obviously doesn't like it if one part of the image moves for whatever reason. If we could select a subset of th...
by stevekale
Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:49 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

Sorry, no such capability. --Rik It would be a cracking addition though :D The GUI doesn't provide any way to change output image names after they have been created. For the case that you've mentioned, I use an output naming template that automatically incorporates the method name and source frame ...
by stevekale
Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:26 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Photographing nymphs
Replies: 15
Views: 5513

I don't suppose there is a way to align frames based on a section of the frame? That would help greatly with managing movement issues. For example, when 'stacking selected' for just a leg I don't care about the alignment of the rest of the image. Sounds like wishful thinking....