handheld focus stack - Woodlouse

iain · Post by **iain** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:26 pm

Hi

Here's a wee woodlouse I found hiding under a log

Still not really insect weather in NE Scotland, but getting there slowly...

Many thanks for looking

Iain

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:12 am

A very nice and informative picture of an animal in its natural habitat. I like it.
It looks very much like an Oniscus asellus.
I suppose the light is artificial though it looks very natural?
How many shots did you need?

iain · Post by **iain** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:44 am

Troels wrote:A very nice and informative picture of an animal in its natural habitat. I like it.
It looks very much like an Oniscus asellus.
I suppose the light is artificial though it looks very natural?
How many shots did you need?

Thanks, yes I like to take shots of beasts in their natural surroundings. This is natural light, I find flash can be quite a cumbersome thing to deal with for macro work, so I generally get the depth of field simply by stacking. This is a stack of 40 shots.

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:07 pm

40 handheld shots in the field for stacking.
That really deserves respect. Must take some practise.

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:01 pm

Well done. I'm a bit surprised it's as many as that - I'd guess it's sharp a fair bit bigger than shown here?

For me it's much better to have the subject itself sharp all over like this than have to "allow" for a shot to be a "hand held/single/uncropped" frame.

On the other hand, I'd prefer to see the foreground less out of focus.

Terminal frame at f/32, perhaps ?

iain · Post by **iain** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:20 pm

ChrisR wrote:Well done. I'm a bit surprised it's as many as that - I'd guess it's sharp a fair bit bigger than shown here?

For me it's much better to have the subject itself sharp all over like this than have to "allow" for a shot to be a "hand held/single/uncropped" frame.

On the other hand, I'd prefer to see the foreground less out of focus. Terminal frame at f/32, perhaps ?

Thanks Chris - the focus at either end is something I'm hoping to work on this season - but with shot's like this I'm already down to maybe 1/80 - 1/100 at f2.8, so increasing the aperture significantly might be a problem. A work in progress...