Although I am admiring your postings for quite a while now, this is my first post in this forum. I do photography since many years but only recently started to really get into focus stacking so I still try to fine tune my technique.
Today, I would like to share with you a stack of a european deer tick, Ixodes ricinus with the hypostome exposed.
The tick was killed in isopropyl alcohol and glued onto a toothpick. The lighting is done with a speedlight in a small softbox from the front and a with DIY fiber optic flash from the top and from behind (like a rimlight).
I hope you enjoy the image!
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Technical details:
Camera: Nikon Z6II
Godox V1 and AD200
DCR-150
Xenoplan 1.4/23
150 frames in 10μm steps
stacked in Helicon Focus (mode B, radius: 1, smoothing: 1)
Ixodes ricinus
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