Extreme Moth

I'm having a slight argument with Lady D. I say this isn't perfect, she says she loves it.

We've been playing extreme macros with the 65mm lens. This is a photostack of 18 images. I should have put in another ten at least! I haven't done this for a while and can't get the lighting quite right and have to get used to moving the macro slide forward in very, very small steps. All put together with Helicon focus.

I may change this yet... when Lady D is out of the way! :)

A quick explanation of photo stacking. When the depth of field of a photograph is shallow, not all areas of the image are in focus. To overcome this multiple images are taken of the subject, moving the focus forward in each. Helicon Focus is an automated program that combines only the areas that are in focus in each image to produce one single photograph that is perfectly in focus throughout. In this image you can see the areas out of focus which are not a program error but areas which I hadn't covered with the number of images I took! It seems complicated but is actually very simple.