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Thanks Jacquelin! To me there's something kinda creepy about the eyes being left behind on the exuvium. lolThose eyes look straight into my soul.
Thanks for the comparison shots Mirza! Yeah f/20 is pretty soft ... f/16 doesn't seem like it would be that much different but I find it to be quite a bit better. Of course everything giving you DOF is gonna look mushy when you're used to shooting wide open!That's an awesome stack the details are just mindblowing. I "borrowed" your carapace shot idea to test different f-stops and the diffraction at f20 vs wide open is pretty noticeable. I've been shooting at f20 lately and it feels like the images lack that punch.
Here's a new f/6.7 stack for ya.
Thanks a lot Jan! Even the 'leftovers' of a P. metallica are beautiful!Still one of my fav shots by you, Michael. Those look just plain simply awesome! Totally alien
The H. mac molted at last, so I couldn't resist another carapace stack. This one turned out better than the P. metallica one I think, probably just due to the inherent characteristics of the carapace, but I also made this one a 200-image stack vs. 78 on the metallica. Probably overkill to be honest, but whatever the reason may be I'm really happy with the image. Unfortunately though, stacked images never have quite the fidelity of the source images ... DOF always demands a tradeoff in one form or another.
Heteroscodra maculata, 5-inch adult female, exuvium by _papilio, on Flickr
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