Last night I came across a YouTube video where a young photographer, Jamie Spensley, was taking photos of fungi and stacking them, using the focus bracketing feature on his (Olympus) camera. As Canon probably has the same function (it does), I thought I'd give it a go.
I went for a 2 hour walk round the local area this afternoon - sadly the forecast was not just inaccurate, it was completely wrong and the promised sun did not materialise - looking for specimens to try this out on.
Initially I tried focus stacking 50 images, one lot at f/2.8 another at f/11 and so on, then 20 images at a time then 10. However, I have found that picking the best ones from them at varying focus planes, in Lightroom, and exporting them as layers into Photoshop works best.
Some turned out better than others, weird artefacts have popped up here and there which have needed removing, but overall the results are not bad. That said, as I have edited more images, it seems to be improving - Photoshop uses AI and machine learning so that could be the reason, as well as me getting the hang of things.
Canon R6 MkII and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro lens
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| Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) 6 x stacked images |
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| Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) 16 x stacked images |
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| Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) 2 x images stacked |
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| No idea what this is (poss. Tricholoma argyraceum) 2 x stacked images |
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| Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor) 3 x stacked images |
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