Series of shots of an interestingly marked and dented harlequin ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene stacker. I purposely focus stacked the foreground in some of the shots.
After taking two shot sequences the ladybird got fed up and started wandering around so I gave it a drop of honey which it promptly buried it's nose in.
Hi Brian,
Did you say that these pics are only two images stacked together in Zerene?
I thought that 'stacking' involved multiple ( a lot more than two) images that were taken focused very closely together? Is there a difference in the focus distance for your two-shot images?
Sorry mate, you seem to cop nearly all my questions. . . .
Bruce
John - I'd seen ladybirds licking the honey/sugar spray i use so thought honey might work - I guess aphids are a bit like bags of dilute honey
Bruce - didn't mention how many pics but think these are between 3 and 7 shots. I do quite often only stack 2 shots though just to get a bit more DOF. Re the focus - I use fixed focus and move the camera a little in between shots judging the movement in the viewfinder so the next slightly oof part is in clean focus.
