3 image manual stack in Photoshop. Canon 30D Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens Full set of Kenko tubes Ring flash Aperture Priority I started by setting up the ship on a stand and placing the background ...

One of the magic possibilities of digital photography is "focus stacking". At the risk of offending granny who already knows how to suck eggs, here is a brief description of focus stacking. FS is a ...

Playing around with close-up photography is a lot of fun, especially once you have invested in a dedicated macro lens for your camera. However, macro lenses may not be able to give you as much depth ...

[Samuel Sargent] built his own lens for making stacked macro images.This project, which was completed as part of his senior thesis, utilizes a Zeiss enlarger lens. The aperture ring was broken, making ...

Adjusting aperture alone can only do so much to get sharp images with a wide depth of field — sometimes, getting both point A and point B tack sharp in one shot is about as possible as a flying pig.

[Samuel Sargent] built his own lens for making stacked macro images.This project, which was completed as part of his senior thesis, utilizes a Zeiss enlarger lens. The aperture ring was broken, making ...