Thanks for looking and commenting, much appreciated
This is a field stack of 20 images. The Butterfly was alive and in it's natural habitat.
Canon 600D, MP-E65, MT-24EX, difuzer, f/5, 1/200, ISO 100, MUP, focus stacking (20 exposures), tripod, macro focusing rail, wired remote shutter control.
kwoodard wrote:
Most impressive. 20 stacked images on a live subject...I don't think I have been able to get more than 2 or 3 if its still alive!
-It's my first time to successfully take 20 stacked image on a live subject and firs time to use manfrotto focusing rail.
You can even see landscape refraction in a dewdrop (flipped shot)
The rail allows you to slide the camera in and out easily, don't have to move the tripod. One thing that has always puzzled me, when using a rail and you get closer to the subject, doesn't the subject get larger in the frame?
kwoodard wrote:
when using a rail and you get closer to the subject, doesn't the subject get larger in the frame?
-Maybe a little bit, almost unnoticeable because macro rail slides less than a millimeter between each shot.
I believe I read and saw an example somewhere that when you change the focus of an object in extreme macro the position also changes slightly even when the tripod is fixed. Perhaps the rail moving closer to the object will correct for the position of the object changing.
I've only done field stacking manually with a much lower number of steps.
