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Old 04-06-2009, 01:00 PM
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Old 30-08-2009, 01:53 PM
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Awesome shot Troy, I've seen some of these before on the Australian Photography forum, yours is every bit as good as those I have seen.
Not to take anything away from Troy's most excellent image, but you should check out some of LordV's shots on his flickr pages.

Troy - I presume that you used CombineZM for this image?

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Old 30-08-2009, 02:17 PM
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No. I've never successfully used CombineZM. If I remember correctly, this was a single shot and I just got lucky that the refraction was in focus at the exact same distance as the grass blade. I have done some of these with 2 focus points - one for the refraction and one for the blade, and just manually layer mask blend them together. Don't think I needed to for this one, though.

Re: CombineZM - have you checked out Zerene Stacker? I haven't done much macro lately, but I've heard good things about it. I know Brian (LordV) was at least testing it out, not sure if he's gone back to CZM or not.
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Old 30-08-2009, 05:37 PM
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One of the best pictures I've seen on this forum ... I'd be very proud of that
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Old 30-08-2009, 07:11 PM
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I'm not shooting much of anything these days Troy, let alone Macro. And even then, I was never really a fan of CombineZM. This was about the best shot that I managed with CombineZM - Six or Seven slices from memory:

http://www.macro-images.com/images/M...998%20copy.jpg

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Old 30-08-2009, 07:29 PM
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Wow! They make perfect lenses.
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Thanks Jeff and Chris

Dave - that's a pretty good stack. I don't have the patience or steady enough hands to do stacking, although I might try to use my new carbon fibre monopod similar to Brian's beanpole idea. I kind of prefer the "au naturel" shallow DoF look we all know and expect from macro.
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Old 30-08-2009, 09:52 PM
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Troy - truth be told, I agree with you. I'm a natural kinda guy, which is why I don't go for 5x mag shots and generally, for stacking. I like to see the Insect/Arachnid in its surroundings, you can't do that at high mags.

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Oh my, thats very elaborated pic. I can't stop lookin at this.

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