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JayLT wrote in post #19262677
Thanks!

It's a process of inevitable frustration, but can give good results on occasion.

Obviously you need a subject that stays still. Any movement can cause odd ghosting issues that can be difficult, or impossible to fix. Sometimes I never notice the movement until I'm going over the pictures, and something on the subject was moved like a leg or an antennae.

For settings, I'm usually using the following (with a flash)

1/200 SS
f/16
ISO 200

One-Shot AF
Spot Focus
Low-Speed Continuous shooting (anything faster than this causes issues with my flash cycling 100% at times)

I adjust flash power as needed to regulate exposure, preferably keeping the flash power at 1/16th or less, as you need it to cycle pretty quickly, and the more power you push the more likely it'll not be able to cycle.

With the R5 I use back-button-focus and have one of the buttons set to use spot-focus. I find spot-focus best for these things. I also have the AF method set to One Shot, you cannot use Servo AF to focus bracketing.

I focus of the part of the subject that I want to be the main feature, usually the eye(s), and then look at the scene. I slowly rock back just enough to to where the closest part (usually a leg or foot) is in focus then I move back just a touch more. Once I'm in that position (everything will look out of focus) I start shooting and slowly move forward towards the subject. You need to do you best to keep the focus point on the same spot as you move forward.

It's a learned process to understand how fast you can move forward with the settings, and sometimes you get it, and sometimes you miss a "slice" and the image looks a bit off. For me, one of the reasons I shoot at f/16 is that the DoF is not too horribly small, so I have some extra room and depending on the subject one of the shots might be good on it's own if for some reason the stack doesn't work out.

Things like that cicada barely move, so they are great subjects, but because they're pretty large you need quite a few shots to get them all, or mostly, in focus. Normally I only do around 5-8 shots, but on that guy I was doing close to 20. To be honest I was surprise they turned out well!