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Spinal Networking (2025)

#MacroMonday #MacroPhotography #Photography #Nature #Macro #CaptureOne #HeliconFocus #DehancerFilm #Nikon

Extreme close-up of a green cactus showing a dense pattern of golden spines radiating from small areoles, with soft focus around the edges creating a warm, abstract texture.

A bit of pine

#iceland #photography #macro #MacroPhotography #closeup #fujifilm #xt3 #laowa #nature #plant #tree #droplets #green #HeliconFocus

A closeup picture of a pine tree with two water droplets

@bearmine Very little. I found #Topaz #SharpenAI invaluable for undoing motion blur. I used to have to use a separate app to stitch panorama shots together, but C1Pro has added that capability; there there are cases where the specialised software would do better, but those are rare. C1Pro does not do focus stacking; #HeliconFocus is the best app for that. Very occasionally I turn to #NikCollection to apply one of their styles because #captureonepro doesn't have as wide a variety.

Mycena cyanorhiza growing on a dead tree bark covered in moss, likely the north side.
They’re so tiny and scattered you have to know where to look or it’s easy to miss ‘em. Sometimes they can develop blue hues, as from the name 😃

Olympus OM-1
M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro
Stacked with #HeliconFocus and edited with #LuminarNeo

#mushrooms #nature #omsystem #macrophotography

Mycena cyanorhiza - two white mushrooms growing on a dark bark and surrounded by bright green moss leaves.

Cute couple of Pluteus salicinus on a stick 🤣 They only grow on wood, poplar in this case, and they are #hallucinogenic if eaten raw.

Olympus OM-1
M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro
Stacked with #HeliconFocus and edited with #LuminarNeo

#mushrooms #macrophotography #omsystem #nature

Pluteus salicinus - two whitish well developed mushrooms growing on the very tip of a wood stick

Yesterday I learned that if #HeliconFocus is having a hard time aligning photos, you can align them in #Photoshop, import them to Helicon, and turn off Helicon's aligning

Today I learned that if you don't turn Helicon's aligning back on before you try more #FocusStacking, you will get very bad results

Oriental Lily With Water Drops On Leaf 🌸🍃💧

📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (45mm, ƒ/8, 1s, ISO 400)

#Photography #MacroPhotography #CloseUpPhotography #FlowerPhotography #NaturePhotography #WaterDrops #Flowers #Nature #Lily #Olympus #OMD #EM10 #OMSystem #m43 #MicroFourThirds #MirrorlessPhotography #MastoArt #HeliconFocus #HeliconSoft #FocusStacking

Oriental lily with water droplets on a leaf against a dark background

9V Battery

A little experiment with focus stacking. I used my 16mm macro extension tube and set focus bracketing on my camera to take 8 photos with different focus. Then I merged them together in HeliconFocus to get the entire battery in focus.

I tried using Photoshop to merge them first, but I think it needs more images with smaller differences in focus. HeliconFocus had much better results with this set of images.

📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (49mm, ƒ/5.6, 0.6s, ISO 800)

#Photography #MacroPhotography #Olympus #EM10 #OMSystem #HeliconFocus

In der Makrofotografie wird oft die Stacking Technik eingesetzt. Dabei wird durch ein Computerprogramm aus verschiedenen Schärfeebenen ein Bild mit durchgehender Schärfe berechnet. So etwas kann man z. B. mit Photoshop oder Affinity Photo machen. Es gibt natürlich auch Spezialprogramme . Zerene https://www.zerenesystems.com/cms/home und Helicon focus https://www.heliconsoft.com gibt es zum Black Friday noch mit 20-30% Rabatt. #photo #macro #zerene #heliconfocus #blackfriday

The close up of Meadow Brown butterfly. Was glad the rain eased and the wind dropped last night enough for me to attempt a few macro shots. This was a stacked shot of 5 individual frames.

#macro #closeup #stacked #heliconfocus #meadow #brown #butterfly #nature #wildlife #cornwall #beauty #detail #eyes #photography

Extreme close up of Meadow Brown butterfly from the side

It's time to go deep! Here's a composite image of a lily formed from 55 successive images. I hope you enjoy it. Tech info on request. #Flower #Flowers #NikonZ8 #HeliconFocus #FlowerPhotography