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bumblebee close up

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted November 24, 2012123 views6 comments

This was the result of a stack of about 10 images taken at Cantigney Park in Wheaton, Illinois, USA, a few months ago during a club shoot.

I thought there was a dead bee in a flower, but upon closer inspection, I found there were several of them, and then I saw them stirring. It was a cold morning, and I then realized that they cooled down there the night before and were just now waking up.

So I decided to take a focus stack using my Tamron 90 mm f/2.8 macro at roughly 1:1, tripod, f/8, 1/20s, ISO 100, Pentax K-5 (comparable to a D7000). And this was the result of a crop of that composite interpretation done using CS5.5 (before I got Zerene).

I'm not that interested in critique on this, I'm just presenting it for your possible enjoyment.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Guy Nelson on November 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM

I enjoy it John, pretty cool photo!

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on November 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM

Enjoyment achieved by this viewer,
Fantastic detail in this truely Close - Close-up.

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Comment posted by John Clulow on November 24, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Thanks. I plan to fix some of the issues with it as soon as I get time. But it was kind of a surprise to me, too :)

Also, Guy Nelson, I appreciate your pun on "cool" without which this bee would have been too active to focus stack.

There are issues with the stack that I hope to resolve with Zerene.

Registered on November 1, 2012, 155 Posts, 1079 Comments

Comment posted by scott lanz on November 24, 2012 at 9:01 PM

Excellent, John. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by John Clulow on November 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM

Thanks for looking and for your comments. Today I took another look at this 12 image stack using Zerene and its retoutch capabilities as well as some ACR, and a different interpretation of the files emerged. Which I will try t attach to this...

At this point, now that I've done what I can think of with what I had to work with, I would appreciate learning about anything I may have missed.

Registered on November 1, 2012, 155 Posts, 1079 Comments

Comment posted by John Clulow on December 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM

This crop of the zerene result is more comparable to the photoshop stack crop initially posted for anyone interested in making that comparison.

Registered on November 1, 2012, 155 Posts, 1079 Comments