Nikon D810, 1.3 sec, f/20, 92mm, ISO 200
This is a 54-image, focus-stacked, macro image of a rose bouquet. I used my Really Right Stuff macro rail to move the focus from the very back bloom to the leaves at the very front. The detail on this 20×30 inch image is pretty impressive.
Nikon D810, 1.3 sec, f/20, 92mm, ISO 200
One day my wife received flowers from her friends. After they passed their look-good date, I put them in my garage to age a bit. One rainy day I set up my home studio and took a series of images. I then set them aside to age some more.
Nikon D810, 15.0 sec, f/20, 90mm, ISO 200
My wife picked up this sea grass bouquet during a trip to Charleston, SC. One rainy day I took this into my garage studio and broke out my 90mm macro lens. Because of the shallow depth of field associated with macro lenses, and the depth from front to back of the bouquet, I had to take multiple images focused on different parts of the bouquet. To control the focus points, I used my Really Right Stuff macro rail (yikes! I bought mine years ago and did not spend this much!)
During post processing I focus stacked the dozens of images into a single image. Actually, there were so many images I had to stack them into four different images, and then focus stack those four images. After focus stacking, the entire image is in sharp focus forth very back to the strands sticking out the front.
Garage Photography
