Water drop fly macro

[kalgra]

Been awhile since I've done any macro. This is a 4 image stack at 3x magnification slight crop.

20160716[/url] by Kristian Algra, on Flickr[/IMG] 20160716 by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

 

[jcdeboever]

Looks military. Great shot.

 

[kalgra]

Thanks! I just noticed one spot didn't stack correctly not the first time photoshop has done the. I'm really curious is some of the other programs out there would be better.

 

[davholla]

Very nice photo.

 

[smoke665]

One word COOL!!!

 

[kalgra]

Thanks again everyone! Here is another one I tried.
This is a 29 image stack. I was trying to be creative but not sure it came out as I really wanted. I shot this one with a prism behind the subject for some color.
Shutter speed was 1/30 and iso 200 to get some of the ambient light from the prism. In the end I feel like it just looks like I photoshoped the fly onto a colored background when in fact it really was all in camera. Perhaps I should have used much fewer images so that part of the fly blurred in with the background I think that might have worked better. Maybe ill try that.

Anyway I do think I got some good detail on this one and it was a good learning exercise.

20160717-fly1 by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

 

[jcdeboever]

Wow, simply amazing. I would nominate one of these for POTM but I ran out of votes.

 

[kalgra]

Wow, simply amazing. I would nominate one of these for POTM but I ran out of votes.

Wow thanks! I dont think any of these are POTM worthy but im sure glad you like them.

Here is the second one redone. I used the first 15 from the stack instead of all 29. I also think I retouched this one better. I lost all the detail in the wings but at least it dosnt look so superimposed. What you you think?

20160717-flystack07192016 by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

 

[jcdeboever]

Wow, simply amazing. I would nominate one of these for POTM but I ran out of votes.

Wow thank! I dont think any of these are POTM worthy but im sure gals you like them.

Here is the second one redone. I used the first 15 from the stack instead of all 29. I also think I retouched this one better. I lost all the detail in the wings but at least it dosnt look so superimposed. What you you think?

20160717-flystack07192016 by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

I'm a guy...

 

[kalgra]

I'm a guy...

Ha sorry stupid auto correct that was supposed to say.
"Wow thanks! I dont think any of these are POTM worthy but im sure glad you like them."

 

[jcdeboever]

I'm a guy...

Ha sorry stupid auto correct that was supposed to say.
"Wow thanks! I dont think any of these are POTM worthy but im sure glad you like them."

I think they are.

 

[JustJazzie]

Its always surprising how pretty those pests can be when you see them up close. Well done!!

 

[DScience]

So does PS stack them automatically?

 

[kalgra]

So does PS stack them automatically?

Sort of I guess. The work flow I use for PS at a high level is to first do any Lightroom corrections to one image then synch those changes to all other images from the stack and export them to PS. In PS I run the load images into stack script for all the open images, then run align images, then run merge stack, Finally I flatten the stack and refine the image with spot removal, etc.

If using Helicon its much more automated. I use the Helicon Lightroom plugin so I can export the synched images to Helicon which automatically loads the stack, click on the stack option I want and click render.

 

[Streets]

Been awhile since I've done any macro. This is a 4 image stack at 3x magnification slight crop.

OUTRAGEOUSLY FINE WORK!

20160716[/url] by Kristian Algra, on Flickr[/IMG] 20160716 by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

Its always surprising how pretty those pests can be when you see them up close. Well done!!