Photography Challenge - Macro / Close-up

[JayAy]

Forget-me-nots. Tripod image at 1:1 with a crop too. The slightest breeze had these flying all over the frame.

• Canon EOS R5
• EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 500

 

[Kathryn Milner]

May - Yellowbell - The Yellowbell is one of the first flowers in spring and is found on prairie grasslands. It is actually a lily and has an edible bulb that was eaten by Native Americans.
I am loving using my RF 100 to 500 telephoto for macro shots.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 343.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 500

 

[Kathryn Milner]

Cabbage Butterfly on a Dandelion

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 640

 

[Kathryn Milner]

May 8, 2021 - Spring Beauty if a beautiful little wildflower that blooms in the woodland in Alberta. It is one of the first blooms of spring. The plant is about 12 cm (5 in) tall and each bloom is 8 mm (1/3") across.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1250

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[GeraldHerd]

Spring Beauty if a beautiful little wildflower that blooms in the woodland in Alberta. It is one of the first blooms of spring. The plant is about 12 cm (5 in) tall and each bloom is 8 mm (1/3") across.

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Fwiw, I think this the better of the two.

 

[Kathryn Milner]

Wildflower - Smooth Blue Penstemon - I happy with how DPP got the colour just right on the flower. The colour was nice with Lightroom but the raw profile in DPP shows it the way it really was.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 160

 

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R6 + Adapted EF 100L

 

[Kathryn Milner]

June - Wildflower - This tiny bloom is called a Shooting Star and appears with two Spring Beauty blooms.

 

[MaraLee]

For comparison with the previous single image, this time using the R5's focus stacking, still just with natural lighting.

Both images are 40 slices deep stacked with Photoshop. I did try with Canon DPP and found the results very close to those from Photoshop. DPP knows how many images are in the stack, so that's a bit simpler to set up, but it is a lot slower processing the images.

Much cleaner images with than with the previous single shot approach, as expected, though a lot more effort is involved. There is some smearing form the stacking process which I'll have to find out how to resolve. Lots more to learn.

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One form the other side too - I don't think that front tyre is roadworthy anymore.

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Love these! Did you ever find out what's causing the smearing? I'm encountering it, too, with Photoshop in stacking. I thought it might be from too few images, but it did it really bad with 120 yesterday. I don't know if it's during the alignment or the blending stage. I've been doing auto-align while importing, but I might try doing it after import and see if that makes a difference. I'm using an R6, but I know it's PS, because the images are fine.

 

[JayAy]

Love these! Did you ever find out what's causing the smearing? I'm encountering it, too, with Photoshop in stacking. I thought it might be from too few images, but it did it really bad with 120 yesterday. I don't know if it's during the alignment or the blending stage. I've been doing auto-align while importing, but I might try doing it after import and see if that makes a difference. I'm using an R6, but I know it's PS, because the images are fine.

I've not had any time to dig further into this I'm afraid.