A few recent stacked shots

[JasonC]

Hi All,

I haven't posted any of my macros here yet so, I hope you like them. There is still a fair amount of improvement to be made to my future stacks but I hope to learn a lot of from great community

Fly Detail by JasonCanning, on Flickr

Shield Bug by JasonCanning, on Flickr

Hoverfly Nose by JasonCanning, on Flickr

Double Fly Heads 2 by JasonCanning, on Flickr

Long Legged Fly by JasonCanning, on Flickr

Jumping Spider focus stack by JasonCanning, on Flickr

[Pau]

Jason, those are excellent stacks!

[ckatosmith]

third one... cool juxtaposition.

[liuto]

I think these are very nice stacks!

regards
Hermann

[JasonC]

Thanks all, I appreciate your comments

[rjlittlefield]

Jason, welcome aboard.

I agree, these are excellent stacks. The third one is spectacular! (closeup of antennae between bits of eyes)

What techniques and equipment are you using?

--Rik

[JasonC]

Thanks Rik,

Yes the hoverfly nose is a favourite of mine too, and one of the most recent 5x magnification stacks I've done that are starting to get as sharp as I'd like.

The equipment I use is:

Canon 70D
MP-E65
MT24-EX twin flash with my own CAD designed diffusers
Velbon focus rail and just recently a Stackshot focus rail

Software wise I use Zerene Pro, Lightroom, Photoshop and NIK software for editing/touching up.

Most of my shots are around 80 shot stacks but, when I get more time from work I need to do some calculations to work out the optimum amount. I've recently found out about sub-stacking so I hope to bring this into my workflow too if it will help with the quality and post processing time.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my photos

[Olympusman]

Excellent technique.