{"id":1614,"date":"2017-03-08T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:27:34","slug":"cross-stitch-floss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Cross Stitch Floss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cross Stitch Floss\u00a0(click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have a cross-stitcher in the house. \u00a0While stitching, they put their floss scraps in a Mountain Dew bottle. \u00a0At the end of their current project, I cut open the bottle and used the floss for a stacked-focus macro project. \u00a0The pile of floss turned out to be a cylinder about 4 inches tall by 2.5 inches across.<\/p>\n

I put the stack of floss inside my Fotodiox studio in a box<\/a>\u00a0to get even light around the entirety of the floss cylinder. \u00a0I then mounted my camera on my tripod with a Really Right Stuff B-150 Macro Focusing Rail<\/a>. \u00a0Given the depth of the stack of floss, the use of a macro lens, and the close lens to floss distance, there was no f-stop that could achieve the depth of field needed to get the entire stack of floss in\u00a0sharp focus. \u00a0Even using f\/40\u00a0on my Tamron 90mm macro lens, only a limited depth of field was in sharp focus.<\/p>\n

Really Right Stuff has a good macro article on their blog<\/a>\u00a0here. \u00a0In that blog they mention stacking 10, 50, and even 70 images depending on the depth of the subject. \u00a0The image above is a stack of 97 images. \u00a0Had I realized it was 97, I would have taken three more to make it an even 100! \u00a0With my Nikon D-810, each RAW image ended up being 77mb.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, during post processing\u00a0my iMac (with 32gb of RAM) choked when trying to stack the 97 images. \u00a0To get around this, I stacked 25 images, flattened the file, and repeated this four times. \u00a0I then took those four files\u00a0and stacked them. \u00a0The result is the image above.<\/p>\n

Click on the image, to open it in another window, then click on it again to zoom in. \u00a0You can see individual threads coming off the floss strands. \u00a0I am pretty happy with the macro rail and the Fotodiox studio in a box.<\/p>\n

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