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I love shooting Macro but recently I have been told to try stacking my images to get sharper focus throughout the subject. Today while gardening I came across the caterpillar for a hawk moth, and decided to make some stacked images, is the result of using my Z8's ability to shoot shift focus images (I shot 40 for this experiment) and the other is the result of some hand held images (5) which I stacked. All processing done in Photoshop. BTW fortunately the caterpillar stayed absolutely still because it took me about 25 minutes to get my camera on the tripod and to set up shift focus shooting on my Z6 II. Can you tell which image is the 40 stack on a tripod and which is the 5 stack handheld?
Posted in The Wild Photographer (edited)
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Twenty-five minutes on the tripod setup versus five handheld shots. The stack count matters less than whether the stillness paid off, did the tripod version give you something worth the setup time, or did the handheld sequence get close enough that you'd skip the wait next time?
The tripod version gave me two things the handheld stack didn't a) I shot the series at F/4 so after stacking I had a beautiful out of focus and clutter free background. b) I learned a bit about focus shift shooting using my camera. Obviously focus shift shooting with a moving subject will me a challenge if not impossible...that said it may lead to some creative images😀