Got a new photography toy yesterday
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Actually I dont use the fridge anymore. I found something that works better. I anesthatize them with CO2 to put them to sleep for about 5-15 minutes. The effects of the CO2 seem to last longer sometimes than others. Im not sure why. For the most part they curl up like their dead when knocked out so it unfortunately is still not a great method however I can get them in place and everything in focus and ready to go. Once they wake up there is generally a few seconds even minutes sometimes where they stand up right long enough for me to refocus if needed then snap off as many shots as possible before they run off and Rachel starts screaming at me to "KILL IT KILL IT!!!!"
Haha yeah I call it the erection lens because it goes from so small to so large lol!!
I did my very first ever stacked images. This is the head of some sort of gnat that was was less than 3/32" long in total body length. They didnt turn out real hot the anteneas didnt stack well at all but not completely terrible for my first try. The first one is made up of 11 separate images combined into one. The second which obviously has some holes in the frontal DOF was made up of 7 I think.
I did my very first ever stacked images. This is the head of some sort of gnat that was was less than 3/32" long in total body length. They didnt turn out real hot the anteneas didnt stack well at all but not completely terrible for my first try. The first one is made up of 11 separate images combined into one. The second which obviously has some holes in the frontal DOF was made up of 7 I think.
No the dof stays the same for each photo but you move the location of where the depth dof is within the frame. Think of it as taking small slices. Basically you set the camera up so that the dof is very narrow but very sharp. You take one photo with the dof in the front part of the image then you move the lens forward so that the part in focus is just slightly behind the first and so on. Then you take all the in focus slices of each image and combine then into one where everything is super sharp and in focus from the front to back. This is called focus stacking. Some of those really crazy images in that link I posted earlier are made up of over 100 images stacked together. Where the dof is litterally a fraction of the width of a piece of paper.