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[Blue439]

Watercolors (2020)

Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 60mm ƒ/2.8 D macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Composite shot made up of 15 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

 

[Blue439]

A seascape by Schlitz (2019)

Franz Schlitz was an Alsatian painter born in 1934, who passed away in the early 2000s. He is one of my favorite artists. My mother knew him well and bought a number of paintings by him, some of which have a handwritten dedication to her on the back of the canvas. He was a great landscapist and seascapist (I just coined that new word). This is a detail of one of his seascapes that I now own.

Nikon Z7, Laowa 100mm ƒ/2.8 2× macro lens, manual focus. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Composite shot made up of 20 focus-stacked exposures, set manually using a NiSi NM-180 focusing rail. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

 

[Clovishound]

I'll post a few here rather than swamp my 365 with macro shots. I will likely be taking a lot of macro in the next few months, and back down a little on the birds.

Saw a little more variety in the offerings in the backyard this morning. Despite my resolution to shoot more available light, I decided to do these with flash. They were deeper in the foliage and I didn't think I'd have enough light for available light shots. I would have liked to do some focus stacks on the beetle, but he was moving a tad too much for that, plus, it was a little low to the ground. That made it awkward to shoot a bunch of images from the same perspective.

I was pleased to get an interaction between the beetle and an ant. I saw it coming, and wondered if the beetle was going to invite the ant to brunch. The ant just walked up to the beetle and put her head up against him. Not sure what that was about.

In the second one, I saw the ant just walking by and thought perhaps the assassin bug would make a small meal of the ant, but he didn't seem interested. Maybe the ant was too small.