Dew Drop Refraction 2

[allie_c]

Different fly from the previous shot but taken during the same walk. This is 5 shots combined to get both DOF and Detail in both fly and Dew drop. Fly is approximatley 4mm in body length.

MPE-65 and 30D. Click for Larger.

[Paranormalist]

What I see in this 'cystal ball' I like very much.

[Jitetsu]

Lovely shot again. You're dew drop doesn't look quite as clear in this one. Is that a product of not aiming straight at it or just co-incidence? I'd be tempted to clone out the tiny droplet just below the fly and maybe crop off a bit of the top and bottom of the image but keep the full width. If you've cropped out anything from the originals then you could extend off to the left. With the eye of the fly where 1/3rds cross in the top right and the droplet mirroring that position in the bottom left (a little further into the frame than it is now) it could really play off the rule of thirds. As it stands with this composition, my eye is drawn much more to the fly.

I think your previous one is stronger because the droplet has more reflections showing and the fly is facing it and closer to it.

I know you shoot a lot of this handheld. I remember nearly falling over when doing a macro shot and someone knocked the plant I was shooting. I thought it was me moving in and out of focus and tried to compensate and my sense of balance wen't so very wrong. My question though is that if you're doing it handheld and the subject doesn't move.. I just can't imagine that you have the same photo each time with different focus. You'll always move a fraction and that'll have some impact on trying to stack them. Does the software cope with this and kind of identify the common bits of each photo so it can stack them?

[mjb-av]

You see now you are just showing off!

Another great photo when will they stop?

Lets hope never.

Thank you for the time and effort you have put into your photography.

[Tobers]

Excellent once again. I still reckon you have a small swarm of well trained obedient flies following you around ready to sit on a suitable location for you .

[Paranormalist]

Originally Posted by Tobers

Excellent once again. I still reckon you have a small swarm of well trained obedient flies following you around ready to sit on a suitable location for you .

Lord of Flies...is he...

[bodoman]

The Fly Whisperer

[DE-DE]

very good shot

[allie_c]

Originally Posted by Jitetsu

Lovely shot again. You're dew drop doesn't look quite as clear in this one. Is that a product of not aiming straight at it or just co-incidence? I'd be tempted to clone out the tiny droplet just below the fly and maybe crop off a bit of the top and bottom of the image but keep the full width. If you've cropped out anything from the originals then you could extend off to the left. With the eye of the fly where 1/3rds cross in the top right and the droplet mirroring that position in the bottom left (a little further into the frame than it is now) it could really play off the rule of thirds. As it stands with this composition, my eye is drawn much more to the fly.

I think your previous one is stronger because the droplet has more reflections showing and the fly is facing it and closer to it.

I know you shoot a lot of this handheld. I remember nearly falling over when doing a macro shot and someone knocked the plant I was shooting. I thought it was me moving in and out of focus and tried to compensate and my sense of balance wen't so very wrong. My question though is that if you're doing it handheld and the subject doesn't move.. I just can't imagine that you have the same photo each time with different focus. You'll always move a fraction and that'll have some impact on trying to stack them. Does the software cope with this and kind of identify the common bits of each photo so it can stack them?

Thank you very much for the comments.

I think the droplet dosent look as clear as the other one because i was shooting at a slightly downward angle.

You always get some movement in between frames and this is generally corrected by the stacking program which like you say identifies common parts of the image. The most important thing is to keep the same Point of View as if this changes during the sequence of shots it will not stack correctly.

Next time i do a stack i will post all the shots used along with the final image so you can get a better what i started off with.

Alistair.