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Focus Stacking
Getting the most out of your images
Focus Stacking allows for unbelievable detail in extremely small subjects. This can be great for small products, wildlife, or even to show the texture of a much larger object.
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Orb-Weaver Spider
Top of head out of focus
Hind legs out of focus
Orb-Weaver Spider
Center of back out of focus
The spider above is known as an "Orb-Weaver Spider". To get these images was no easy task. This spider was on a web stretching 10 feet across and 6 feet in height. The spider was sitting perfectly still in the center of the web, but the issue was that the web was swinging back and forth in the wind. I had to get about 40 images to get each one of these final photos. You will see parts of the image are still unfocused, this is due to the fact that the web was swinging so much, that none of the 40 original images had those parts in focus.
What is Focus Stacking?
Focus stacking is a photography technique where multiple images of the same subject are taken, each with a slightly different focal point. These images are then combined into one picture, only using the focused part of each image to make up the final product. This process ensures that the entire piece of jewelry is in complete focus from front to back.
This final image is made up of 20 individual pictures. Each with a focal point just millimeters away from the previous. The size of this file is 60 megapixels.
Leopard Moth Caterpillar
American Green Tree Frog
Photographing wildlife is definitely a challenge if you aren't in the ideal environment, with the specific tools you need. For the two shots above, I was able to keep both subjects still long enough to get a few images to focus stack.
