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    Senior Member Dave Throgmartin's Avatar
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    A couple bee images, front profile and then side. You can see the bees tongue in the front profile!


    2013_08_10_2642_LR_upd_8x10 by dthrog00, on Flickr


    2013_08_10_2644_LR_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

    Thanks for viewing.
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    Looks like a good week for bees. Here is one from Friday morning.


    Morning Dew -5799 by westmichigan, on Flickr
    5DS R, 1D X, 7D, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6, 24mm f/1.4L II, 16-35mm f/4L IS, 24-105mm f/4L, 50mm f/1.8, 100mm Macro f/2.8L, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II, 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L, 580EX-II
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Throgmartin View Post
    Jason,

    Nice images and sounds like you have some advanced techniques too! How do you prefer to do the focus stacking?

    Dave
    Dave, sorry it took me so long to respond. I really just use the focus as close as you can to the subject, move your camera either forward or backward, and fire off a series of shots. Usually I have good luck getting most of the bug or flower in focus as I move. I sometimes use a stick, branch or fence to stabilize myself or my lens. I adjust one of the photos in LR then apply to the rest. Then I use photoshop to align the layers, then blend the layers with stacking. After you do it a couple times it is actually pretty easy.

    Here are a couple shots of a bee I captured last week. I stacked 6 shots each. I see that I did miss a shot where the focus isn't crisp on both shots.




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    Joel, that was a cool looking moth wing!

    Andy, lovely flower!

    Kombi, I really like your Lily. Very nice DOF!

    Watchman, you have some very lovely flower shots also.

    Dave, the Damsels a great. Fun looking at those alien heads. Your bee shots are great! Bees do have a very strange tongue.

    Pat, spectacular shot! Catching them in the morning and wet is the way to go. Looks like he is sticking his tongue out at you.

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    I've taken a few lately that I've been meaning to share. All were taken with the 6D and 100mm f/2.8L.





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    Little experiment here. EOS-M, EF adapter, stacked 12mm and 25mm extension tubes on EF 40mm f2.8 lens, 270 EX II flash, manual mode, manual focus (by moving the camera), f16, 1/200s, +2EV, 100ISO, hand held.

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    Mark, I would never have guessed that you took that with the pancake lens. Great creativity.

    I thought I had found an unusual species of bee on my buddleja bush, until I saw it hovering. Bees can't do that. This one is a hoverfly that has evolved to mimic the honey bee.


    Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr


    Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr

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    Expect to see a lot of similar shots like this pop into this topic in the near future.


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    A couple of weeks ago, my wife was out in the garden and came rushing back inside to tell me there were a couple of praying mantises in the yard. We put them in a terrarium so our daughter's kindergarten class could have a look. These shots are of the male, taken after we released them back into the yard.

    "Mantis"

    EOS 1D X, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ ~3x, 1/250 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX


    "Mantis Prey"

    EOS 1D X, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/160 s, f/11, ISO 6400


    Thanks for looking!

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    Nice shots Neuro....I just received my MP-E 65 and MT EX 24 flash from Adorama (found a good deal on a used system) and I took this today hand held. Man, the depth of field is so thin with this lens I can see a focusing rail in my future. No other way to do stack focus. This is a single image.

    1D MKIV + MP E 65mm @ 2X
    ISO 800
    1/320
    f/16
    MT EX 24 macro flash on manual @ 1/64 power


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