First Fungi of the Season [Stacked]

I've been eagerly trekking about for fungi over the last week awaiting the emergenge of the seasons first fungi fruiting bodies.

The following are 5-6 stacks. Shot with my 7D, 100mm f/2.8 at f/2.8.

Stacked with CS5. Stackers: I'm interested in reading your input as well as that of others.

Amanita sp.
The centre image of the stack seems to be missed slightly.

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lovely images, Wayne

Nice compositions. Have you tried stacking twice, say 1-2-3, then 4-5-6 and then stack the two you get from that? Although I don't do much stacking, I have heard that Photoshop is not very good at it. Maybe try another program.

Just great love the second one.

thanks photogs,

I'll have to search around for another program - hopefully free. CS5 is doing a pretty good job and I'll take on CanonLoaders idea of segmenting the stacking process.

I didn't mention earlier: both these images are full framers, in that they are not crops. Makes for spectacular low noise images!

Combine ZM is free, and it does a pretty good job. Zerene is great, but it's not free, and there is a forum to learn more about it, by the guy who wrote the program.

stacking, can some one explain that please..?

You take anywhere from a few, [2 or 3], to hundreds, of images at different focal lengths. Think of a 3D image sliced into a hundred sections from front to back. They are each, all in focus, but only at one tiny depth. You take the images with your camera, then open them in the stacking software, and it merges them into one image that is in focus from front to back, something no camera can do.

Here's a couple of links;

Zerene Stacker, Not free...

Combine ZM, Free..

Thank you for the explantion... i can dig that.. makes macro work more difficult but rewarding and i was wondering how you all got those front to back images

Look pretty good but as you say some missing bits in #2.
I actually often repair focus stacks in PS using the healing brush - you can transfer in focus stuff from one of the shots back onto the stack although you may need to align/resize the original a bit. The process is similar to just hand focus stacking in PS some details here - http://www.flickr.com …iscuss/72157624​267681728/

Brian v.

nicely done Wayne