The MacroGyver - or home brew macro filter

Step 5 Take some pics!

now its time to take some photo's. its best to use a nice small aperature to get a big depth of field and more of the bug in focus, unless you know how to do depth of field stacking with your saved images. all this entails is taking several shots of the same subject in exactly the same position, but with different parts in focus, then the images are combined to make one shot that is all in focus.

here are some shots to demonstrate what you can do with a little patience and experimenting.

included is 2 shots of a wasp, one is out of the 9 i used to dept of field stack to show how a single image would look, and the other is the final image.

Comments

[FumaKilla]

I suppose the object are very still or get sedated... or perhaps not even a living one since taking several picture on different focusing area is really hard!.... I cannot tell the object to stay still can i? any way the result are stagering. the final wasp result is my fav.

[nurglets]

i admit most of the insects aren't exactly, "alive" when i've shot them, also, i've heard sticking them in a fridge puts them to sleep, hmm.... i've stuck together a wierd flash bouncer out of half a 500ml coke bottle lined with tinfoil that sticks onto the top of the pop-up flash on my camera and bounces the light along it and down infront of the lens, this does help to use a small aperture with living subjects and getting a good depth of field, like in these shots with a live weevil

[FumaKilla]

Thank you. that exactly what i did using a DIY flash diffuser (made of hard fabric) and here is the result :). (now less insect are harmed during my macro photo session)

[FumaKilla]

btw I took my name from my hobby of "necromakrography" Fuma : small insect Killa : well you should have known :D I might pay my price on the judgement day :(

[jeff-o]

Well, the results sure are impressive! Nice work.