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Alexey-Kljatov — Pretty fly
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Published: 2014-06-13 18:17:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 2875; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 28
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Macro portrait of house flyIdeas for home and office decor, interior designs and gifts (200+ macro photos, 30+ different products: framed, canvas, acrylic, metal, wood prints; posters, greeting cards, and more): Artist website .
My snowflakes available on Patreon as digital downloads: lossless compressed, full resolution photos; isolated versions, created with precise hand-drawn masks; mobile and desktop wallpapers, up to 4K; vector variants; early previews of upcoming works; behind the scenes; unusual and interesting specimens from my huge archive of source photos; exclusive snow crystals for my patrons only.
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Wow. May i just say,you really do take some beautiful photos. The layers of intricacy you have are beyond amazing and these photos should be in a art gallery. Or the front page of a magazine about animals and nature. Really though,you should consider it.
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This is simply stunning. I initially came to your gallery because of a snowflake, but am actually glad I went into your macro folder because this picture is phenomenal.
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... and it really look like it´s talking!
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Wow!, could you suggest any tutorials for this type of work? Or materials to learn this type of work.
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There is many articles about focus stacking technique, for example:
www.cambridgeincolour.com/tuto…
and forum www.photomacrography.net/forum… contains discussions about this technique.
In my case, shooting that serie was pretty simple: i locked camera focus (using manual focusing mode, selected value in the middle of range and won't change it during shooting), move my macro setup, looking at camera screen, until i see frontal anthenna of the fly head in focus. Then i shoot 4 identical shots (for averaging them later), slightly move my macro setup forward, by fraction of millimeter, and locked focus moved forward. Then i shoot next 4 shots serie, move camera forward again, and so on, until i see that focus moved behing head of the fly. Then i upload all shots in computer, do RAW conversion of all of them with same parameters and averaged groups of 4 shots to make 16 images with different focus and lower noise after averaging. I load these 16 shots in Photoshop CS4 as layers, selected all of them and align (edit - auto align layers). Then i saved copy of aligned sources as PSD file and make focus stack (edit - auto blend layers, mode "stack images"). Result looks nice, but contains a lot of artifacts (blurred areas with bad focus). Then i load previously saved aligned sources on top of focus stacked layer and correct all these artifacts manually (by drawing masks on source layers). This was most time consuming part of whole processing. After artifact fixing, i do standard postprocessing (sharpening, noise removing, color correction, cropping).
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Brilliant thanks for the reponse and tips.
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Cool macro lens may suggest how filmed and used if the macro-ring.!?
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Great job, must have taken a while processing all them images
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Kind of creepy, but still interesting to look at.
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What a picture!!! I'd feel proud If I could.
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Very impressive detail I must add. Great work. Photo stacking does this?
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Thanks! Yes, focus stack + averaging (16 groups of shots with different focus, each group contains 4 identical shots for averaging), 64 total.
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The fly stood there the whole time?
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Yes, this fly had no much choices: it was dead.
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Haha.. no wonder it posed so well for you.
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