Corallimorph + stereo

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Corallimorph + stereo

Post by Starshade »

Image

a slightly bigger image

A focus stacked Rhodactis sp. (it's a relative to corals). I deliberately didn't get whole depth of field to produce a different feel.

The creature is slow, but enough to test my patience to the very limits. It moves between two frames even if I run my setup (stackshot with 5dmk3 mp-e) at full speed. So I've been making stacks for hours non stop (thanks to whoever invented 128gb cf cards!!) and finally caught a nice angle and almost no motion within 30 frames.

So I went further and made a stereo pair... because zs and other pieces of software were creating lots of artifacts at all settings, I did it manually. Yep, quite an annoying job, even though I didn't have hundreds of shots. After 3 weeks of assembling (few hrs a day), here's the result:

x stereo

Will I ever do it again? No way! But hope this colorful underwater invertebrate was worth it.

I kept the animal in a tank specially built for photography (nothing fancy, just thin glass) and the camera with the stackshot was obviously not immersed. If anybody asks how I got the animal - I live in Australia; the rest should be clear ;)

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Post by soldevilla »

Very nice shot!

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Post by Pau »

Really nice colorful image!
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Coral

Post by Olympusman »

Downright pretty.
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Post by Rikisub »

Absolutely wonderful, I have no words for the stereo! congratulations

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Post by abpho »

Very nice indeed. Well done.
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Post by Starshade »

Thank you guys!

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Post by canonian »

The stereo is amazing !
The right amount of DOF adds to the stereo experience.
Well worth the effort and hours, hats off to your persistence.

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Post by Craig Gerard »

A remarkable photograph in all respects.

The x stereo is marvellous.

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Post by marceppy »

It would make a great screen saver!

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Post by g4lab »

Lots of other wonderful stuff on StarShades' web site.

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Post by Planapo »

I somehow had missed this one before.
Marvellous indeed, my monitor screen seems to have turned into the pane of a salt water aquarium!

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Post by canonian »

Congratulation Daniel, on winning the Administrators Appreciation Awards.
The results of your efforts will look nicely on the Forum's frontpage.

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Post by reskin »

This is really good. You should consider entering it in the next Nikon small World competition.
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Post by rjlittlefield »

I agree -- this is lovely, and the stereo is great!

Readers should be sure to view also the 'Slow Life' film by Daniel Stoupin (starshade) on Vimeo.

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