Fly Closeup - First handheld focus stack attempt

[NateS]

I went out tonight and did some test shooting with some new settings to figure some flash stuff out (which I think I got ironed out). Lighting seems much better.

Killing two birds with one stone, I shot this time specifically to try a little hand focus stacking. Below is three images stacked, all shot handheld.

crop from the shot above

 

[flea77]

For a first attempt that is awesome!

Allan

 

[Aloicious]

wow, excellent job, I've wanted to look into stacking recently too. are these shot on your 180 Tamron?

 

[Fedaykin]

Awesome job mate!

 

[NateS]

Thanks guys. Yes this was shot with the Tamron 180mm.

 

[Shooter1]

Very impressive. A number of people don't give Tamron enough credit when it comes to the quality of their optics. You did a great job.

 

[Hardrock]

Very nice! Whats the new lighting setup?

 

[NateS]

Very impressive. A number of people don't give Tamron enough credit when it comes to the quality of their optics. You did a great job.

Thank you. I agree....tamron makes some very nice lenses that are often overlooked. Both this and my Tarmon 17-50 f2.8 are very sharp lenses with very nice bokeh.

Very nice! Whats the new lighting setup?

Thanks. New lighting setup in this shot was...really not a new setup, just figured something out thanks to someone on another forum. I was shooting in spot metering which was causing the ttl flash to over light everything giving me really bad hotspots and overexposure. I shoot in full manual on the camera but ttl uses the metering for flash exposure. I switched to Matrix metering and ttl (or ttl-bl...I saw no difference) and anywhere from 0 to -0.7 FEC and things started looking much better. The newest fly photo thread I posted went one step further and I angled the flash closer to my subject by probably 4-5" (essentially making the softbox act as if it's bigger) and this helped a bunch too...getting much softer and more manageable light now.

 

[Hardrock]

Very impressive. A number of people don't give Tamron enough credit when it comes to the quality of their optics. You did a great job.

Thank you. I agree....tamron makes some very nice lenses that are often overlooked. Both this and my Tarmon 17-50 f2.8 are very sharp lenses with very nice bokeh.

Very nice! Whats the new lighting setup?

Thanks. New lighting setup in this shot was...really not a new setup, just figured something out thanks to someone on another forum. I was shooting in spot metering which was causing the ttl flash to over light everything giving me really bad hotspots and overexposure. I shoot in full manual on the camera but ttl uses the metering for flash exposure. I switched to Matrix metering and ttl (or ttl-bl...I saw no difference) and anywhere from 0 to -0.7 FEC and things started looking much better. The newest fly photo thread I posted went one step further and I angled the flash closer to my subject by probably 4-5" (essentially making the softbox act as if it's bigger) and this helped a bunch too...getting much softer and more manageable light now.

Cool! Thanks:thumbup:

 

[Speed JUnkyz]

Ok I now have a new thing i want to learn lol......Macro is Amazing!!