Does your stacking software have 'help' that tells you what it does and how it does it?

Steve

Looks a bit like nuclear Armageddon in miniature!

Another superb macro from a master of the craft - and art.

Are you growing these slime moulds in a dark, damp cupboard without Mrs Coker knowing???

Steve

Indeed they are. And one that I bought many years ago is still going strong while a much more recent one has packed up. Which goes to show (IMHO) that while £70 is undoubtedly far too much for a battery. beyond a certain point the less you pay the more likely you are to get a dud. The game is to find the point at which price / reliability is lowest. I'm still looking...

Steve

I like the colours of the rocks in the first two photos. They change an otherwise fairly ordinary picture into something rather special . You now need to go back there when the light is different - any chance of catching the rising or setting sun illuminating the rocks?

Steve

Tradescantia Zebrina is grown for its leaves, so it was its leaves that were crying out to be photographed. And here are two totally different pictures. Both focus stacks with K3 + Sigma 70mm macro @ 1:1. Natural light from the left.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

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Steve

Thanks, folks. There are a lot of interesting things on our window ledges!

Steve

It looks like you were having fun .

The last three are the standout ones for me, a bit of abstract mystery about them. And the catkins, nice detail and colour. The slugs are OK if you like that sort of thing - too many of them chomping their way through my garden for me to be in their fan club, though .

Steve

NOOOOOOOO!!! EVIL!!!

Steve

A detail from the last remaining - and declining - flower on Mrs L's Saintpaulia (African Violet) 'Halo's Aglitter'. The first stack with my rebuilt and simplified macro rig. Rebuilt after it had to be dismantled so the room could revert to its original purpose (i.e. a bedroom) for a visit by younger members of the family. Simplified in order to increase stability, albeit at the expense of flexible positioning with bigger subjects such as plants in pots. Fortunately, this Saintpaulia was just the right size .

K3 + Sigma 70mm macro at 1:1. Side lit by afternoon light through a window, 1/2 sec @ f8. A stack of 33 shots, 0.2mm between shots, processed by Affinity Photo. And cropped to about 2/3 original size.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.




Steve

Strange dream last night. I went out for a walk in the countryside with camera. When I got home there was no camera, I'd lost it and hadn't realised at the time. K3 and 16-85mm (yes, that specific) gone. Trying to work out what to do woke me up. Do these things have meanings? Is it an omen? Should I take the K3 out more - or less? Is a plague of cameras on the way?

Steve