Love these pictures. How did you hold the subjects? Hi klevin, * I'll take an insect pin (size 05 or 03 depending on size of of the seed). * I'll paint the pin black using water color [this helps to avoid reflection + allows me to quickly remove the pin from the final photo during post processing, ...

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Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:27 pm

I assume that by "fuzziness" you refer to areas like I have marked here, where it seems like we should be seeing pure black background between the hairs of the pappus.

Yes Rik.

I'm taking photo of seeds having interesting shapes. The subject I was having challenge in staking is Cornflower a.k.a Bachelor's Button seed . The final image came out very good. Also, I like to hear your thoughts on the fuzziness around the hairy portion of the seed. Do you think if that can still...

Hi Rik,

Turning off Brightness under Options > Preferences > Alignment did the trick.

Thanks for your input.

Zerene Stacker is unable to stack the images which has fine hairy structures. Both the stacking modes fail. This is the first time I'm encountering this in Zerene Stacker and unable to determine what is going wrong. Screen Shot 2021-01-09 at 1.14.19 PM.jpg Any advise is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for your response rjlittlefield & Scarodactyl

Hi, Upon stacking images, I always see the edges of the images are distorted. I like to know if this is expected or I'm missing something while taking & stacking images. I have attached the portion of a stacked image for reference. Infinity Plan 10x / 4x microscope objective, attached to canon 80D u...