Friday, 12 March 2021

Macro Session

I felt just in the right mood to take a few macro shots this morning. First I chose the subject - a small flowering cactus plant:

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Found a space to set up my home brew set-up for taking a series of focus stacked photos:

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The Canon M5 fitted with Canon 18-150mm zoom lens and added a Raynox DCR-150 macro lens. Each stacked macro photo is made from 40 - 50 individual shots and processed in Helicon Focus software. The results ....

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The flower is about 17mm across.

7 comments:

  1. Beautiful shots with stunning detail and clarity. I love the yellow pollen against the pink petals surrounded by spiny starbursts.

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    1. Wilma: I think my favourite is the first ne with the buds hiding behind the spines.

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  2. beautiful photos :) Also pleased you have frog spawn - our frogs still have not stirred!!!

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  3. RR: Thank you. They surprised me as it doesn't seem very warm, maybe the amount of Sunshine prompted them to start.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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