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ShallowShannon · Sep 28, 2014

My son found this grass hopper in the yard today.

This thing was huge, over two inches long.

wev · Sep 28, 2014

wev · Sep 28, 2014

wev · Sep 28, 2014

Throat of an aristolochia gigantea

Marilynne · Sep 28, 2014

ShallowShannon said:
My son found this grass hopper in the yard today.

This thing was huge, over two inches long.

That's an Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.
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PapaST · Sep 28, 2014

wornish said:
Nice work, did you use two layers or more ?

Well the first picture was just me shooting handheld. The second one I setup a tripod and rail system and shot about 20-30 pics all about 5mm increments. But truthfully when I processed it I ended up using only 4 or 5 pics/layers for that final product. It's not quite what I wanted as a finished product but that result was far better than using all 20-30 pics. It's almost as if using all the pics in layers gives a greater chance that Adobe will mess up the blend.

mikew_RIP · Sep 29, 2014

ShallowShannon said:
Thanks!
The only one I know is the last one. It's some sort of jumping spider chewing on some sort of fly

We have had this problem before,posters getting too technical

Nice work though

wornish · Sep 29, 2014

PapaST said:
Well the first picture was just me shooting handheld. The second one I setup a tripod and rail system and shot about 20-30 pics all about 5mm increments. But truthfully when I processed it I ended up using only 4 or 5 pics/layers for that final product. It's not quite what I wanted as a finished product but that result was far better than using all 20-30 pics. It's almost as if using all the pics in layers gives a greater chance that Adobe will mess up the blend.

I have found the same issue with too many layers, the blending messes up.
Not sure what version of Photoshop you are using but the latest version CC 2014.1 has a bug in the layer blending that Adobe have acknowledged.
This doesn't affect all users but I have a mac and have had to go back a version and wait for the next release for the fix.

Ironwood · Sep 29, 2014

I found this Long Legged Fly sitting on a red leaf, late this afternoon.

Ironwood · Sep 29, 2014

Tiny flower.

J-see · Sep 29, 2014

This was a pretty hard shot at 1:1. It's not the kind of angle that makes things easy during bad conditions.

And if something seems strange, it is. This guy is a veteran and lost two limbs during some battle.

PapaST · Sep 29, 2014

wornish said:
I have found the same issue with too many layers, the blending messes up.
Not sure what version of Photoshop you are using but the latest version CC 2014.1 has a bug in the layer blending that Adobe have acknowledged.
This doesn't affect all users but I have a mac and have had to go back a version and wait for the next release for the fix.

Ahhh thanks. I'm using CC2014 on Windows and Mac. I haven't updated to 2014.1 yet.