Bruce Enns
07-16-2009, 11:34 PM
A short trip to a local wetland yielded this image of a Spreadwing (not sure which of three possible species, Emerald, I think). I have been trying these manual merges (as in Fabs tutorial sticky at the top of this forum!) since last years dragonfly season. This is a merge of two images, one intended to capture the perch, the face, legs and thorax, the other to capture the wings and abdomen. I could have added a third focused on the tail end of the abdomen, but he moved to a slightly different position. In this case, a careful use of a very small diameter depth of field sharpening brush made the tail appear fairly sharp.
Canon 50D, Sigma 150 f/2.8 macro with Sigma 2x on tripod with gimbal head...AV mode, ISO 400, 1/160s, f/16, 0EV, fill flash with diffuser at -1 2/3
Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated...thanks for looking!
Cheers!
Bruce
Canon 50D, Sigma 150 f/2.8 macro with Sigma 2x on tripod with gimbal head...AV mode, ISO 400, 1/160s, f/16, 0EV, fill flash with diffuser at -1 2/3
Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated...thanks for looking!
Cheers!
Bruce