Ron Conlon
08-01-2014, 05:34 PM
I had been eagerly awaiting the opening of the Turk's cap lilies, because they seemed ideal subjects for stacking. The first opened this morning, and I watched it curl back the petals over a few hours before beheading it and bringing it in.
The camera and lens are a departure: the lens is a Minolta 100mm bellows macro adapted to a Panasonic Micro four-thirds GF3. I shot it also with my usual Nikon 200mm, but preferred the stacks from the bellows lens. Getting a remote flash to fire from the consumer camera is a DIY affair of firing the onboard flash to trigger an optical trigger to fire a radio trigger to a Nikon SB28 speedlight--I was quite pleased that it worked.
Tripod, GF3 adapted to a Minolta MD 100mm bellows lens on a bellows, 2 sec delay on the shutter, remote flash in a lightbox, f6.3 1/160s ISO 160
21 images adjusted in ACR, PMax stacked in Zerene, cropped and sharpened in Photoshop.
The camera and lens are a departure: the lens is a Minolta 100mm bellows macro adapted to a Panasonic Micro four-thirds GF3. I shot it also with my usual Nikon 200mm, but preferred the stacks from the bellows lens. Getting a remote flash to fire from the consumer camera is a DIY affair of firing the onboard flash to trigger an optical trigger to fire a radio trigger to a Nikon SB28 speedlight--I was quite pleased that it worked.
Tripod, GF3 adapted to a Minolta MD 100mm bellows lens on a bellows, 2 sec delay on the shutter, remote flash in a lightbox, f6.3 1/160s ISO 160
21 images adjusted in ACR, PMax stacked in Zerene, cropped and sharpened in Photoshop.