Category Archives: Macro Stacking

Macro Class

Posted in: Colors, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | July 3, 2018 at 2:57 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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I really enjoy teaching macro photography at the Sawtooth School for Visual Arts! In our most recent class, we each took shots of various dried flowers in...

Pipes

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants | May 29, 2016 at 8:34 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Macro Mum – a 7-image stack of this striking chrysanthemum! ...

Purple Dahlia

Posted in: Botany, Colors, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants | May 29, 2016 at 7:32 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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From white to pink to purple; sharpening all areas of the darker flowers in the forefront required only 3 stacked shots. ...

Tulip Tree Flower

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Outdoors, Photography | May 29, 2016 at 2:51 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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A macro stack of 16 images. A member of the magnolia family, the tulip tree‘s dark green leaves are smooth on both sides, and it produces this tulip-shaped, light greenish-yellow and...

Tubular Bells

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Outdoors, Photography, Plants | May 23, 2016 at 6:15 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Spoiler alert – not the theme song from “The Exorcist”! The flower of the fast-growing Empress Tree (aka paulownia tomentosa) is native to China, but in North...

Remembering an Object Lighting Lesson

Posted in: Colors, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | May 4, 2016 at 9:42 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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After several years, I still refer to my photography bibles (aka class notes). Thanks for this class, Kevin Eames!! ...

Spreading Spores

Posted in: Botany, Colors, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | May 4, 2016 at 7:49 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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After viewing the nectarine from several angles for so long, it was really no longer about the part that was rotting (even though it was still the centerpiece), but rather...

Hurricane Warning!

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | May 4, 2016 at 6:04 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Pretty gross, but also pretty fascinating shooting w/ the macro lens. ...

Eye of the Storm

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | May 4, 2016 at 5:34 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Mold spores surround the stem of a slowly rotting nectarine. This is definitely not “peach fuzz”!! Nectarines are a smooth-skinned peach of the family Rosaceae that is...

Leadened

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | March 8, 2016 at 8:04 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Black Bouquet – 16-image macro stack...

Rusty Bronze

Posted in: Botany, Colors, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | March 8, 2016 at 7:39 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Dead, dark black leaves – macro stacking – 13 images. ...

Pineangles

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Photography, Plants | March 6, 2016 at 11:11 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Such a great day in the “lab” and so very cool to just play and practice what I love!! First is a 22-image stack of the pinecone’s front; the side view...

Prickly Creature

Posted in: Botany, Commercial, Creative, Flowers, Indoors, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Nature, Object Lighting, Photography, Plants | March 6, 2016 at 10:41 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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Dried, stringy moss, or some kind of dried out root?? This is approximately 2″ wide, 1″ tall. Using my Canon 30D camera with a 100mm Macro lens,...

Coral Dipped in Bronze

Posted in: Colors, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Object Lighting, Photo Retouching, Photography | November 13, 2015 at 10:16 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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A piece of sun-bleached, uniquely-shaped sea coral was placed on a shelf; this resulting canvas of four images was created using varying combinations of HDR toning....

Bejeweled Fish…

Posted in: Colors, Commercial, Creative, Macro Photography, Macro Stacking, Object Lighting, Photography | November 12, 2015 at 7:53 pm , by Laurie Merritt

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… and a tropical beauty at that!...