Recently I have been thinking a bit about combining shots to achieve a greater depth of field. When I noticed that some of the shots I took today of a spider with its prey were similar but had different parts in focus, I decided to give it a try. The following is the end result.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Macro photography’
September 6, 2008
My first attempt at combining macro shots
July 1, 2008
Crabs and butterflies – a great combo
This weekend we took quick runs through two of Seattle’s sights. First, we decided to spend some time at Discovery Park. This park is well known for a remote beach that contains lots of interesting marine life when the tides are down. To get there, you need to either walk a few miles, take a [...]
June 23, 2008
Finally calibrated my monitor!
For a long time, I felt that buying a monitor calibrator was something that I should do, but it wasn’t crucial. When I made my recent decision to focus more on print photography than on stock, I decided that it was now necessary to get a monitor calibrator. I decided to go with the Spyder [...]
June 19, 2008
Playing with flowers
OK, I promise that I’ll get back to some good old fashioned bugs soon, but I thought I would post some more flowers. Last weekend at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens I played around with daisies. I took all of these shots with my 180L but without a tripod. Instead I used my MT-24EX mounted on [...]
June 18, 2008
Harvestman portrait
Today while looking through some of my recent pictures I came across this portrait I took of a harvestman.
I spent not too much time improving this shot from the original. Mainly, I just strengthened the shadows, increased the contrast, removed some dust spots and used the burn tool around the right eye. I took [...]
June 17, 2008
Experimenting with Photoshop and flowers
Recently I have started listening to the photo critiques at RadiantVista. For those of you not familiar with this site, it is an excellent source of information and composition and Photoshop and on top of that it is free. Currently my use of Photoshop is limited to changing contrast/shadows and converting from RAW to [...]
June 10, 2008
Trying my hand at flowers
While taking pictures of insects yesterday at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens, I noticed that they had lots of pretty things on the plants that sometimes the bugs would crawl on. As most of you know, I spend most of my macro efforts taking pictures of insects, but the major reason for that until recently has [...]
June 9, 2008
Stalking bees in the garden
Those of you who know me will find it very odd that I actually attempted to get some shots of bees the other day. Even more shocking is that I went with my MP-E 65 instead of the 180L- which is what I normally use when stalking bees. The thing is, I am absolutely terrified [...]
June 8, 2008
Masterpiece or delete key?
Some time ago I took this picture.
To be honest, the only reason I kept this shot was because I took a number of shots that day of drops on a Japanese maple. None of them turned out as I had hoped so I kept a few of the half decent ones and deleted the [...]
June 5, 2008
Tips for Macro Photography
Recently I gave a presentation on macro photography for several of my coworkers. I have been trying to figure out how to easily get it into blog format, but it’s rather difficult converting a Powerpoint presentation into a blog. The following are some tips I placed at the end of the presentation on macro photography.
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