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...
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Category Archives: Macro Stacking
Pipes
Macro Mum – a 7-image stack of this striking chrysanthemum! ...
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Purple Dahlia
From white to pink to purple; sharpening all areas of the darker flowers in the forefront required only 3 stacked shots. ...
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Tulip Tree Flower
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...
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Tubular Bells
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...
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Remembering an Object Lighting Lesson
After several years, I still refer to my photography bibles (aka class notes). Thanks for this class, Kevin Eames!! ...
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Spreading Spores
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...
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Hurricane Warning!
Pretty gross, but also pretty fascinating shooting w/ the macro lens. ...
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Eye of the Storm
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...
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Leadened
Black Bouquet – 16-image macro stack...
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Rusty Bronze
Dead, dark black leaves – macro stacking – 13 images. ...
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Pineangles
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...
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Prickly Creature
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,...
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Coral Dipped in Bronze
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....
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Bejeweled Fish…
… and a tropical beauty at that!...
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