Stacking at 5:1 life size.im finding it hard

my 1st attempt at stacking at 5:1 life size..very very hard to do for me..any way here is my attempt..be kind i know its a mess

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if any of u have stacked at 3-5 x life size with good results can u give me some tips..

Looks pretty good. You have the FOV border effect you always get but you just need to crop the pic (it's actually bigger than any of the single shots). You also have some duplication halos on some of the sticky out bits. Normally caused by either the bug moving very slightly or you rotaing the camera slightly between shots. Did you do any rotational alignment in the prog before doing the stack ?
Anyway one of the easiest ways of getting rid of this is to repair clone the affected bit back from one of the original pics with the relevent bit in focus.
Unfortunately greenfly are actually a hard subject for stacking - they always seem to move slightly and actually don't have an amazing amount of detail for the prog to latch on to. I'd practice on a coin or flower and see how you get on with that.

Brian V.

LordV wrote in post #4047754
Looks pretty good. You have the FOV border effect you always get but you just need to crop the pic (it's actually bigger than any of the single shots). You also have some duplication halos on some of the sticky out bits. Normally caused by either the bug moving very slightly or you rotaing the camera slightly between shots. Did you do any rotational alignment in the prog before doing the stack ?
Anyway one of the easiest ways of getting rid of this is to repair clone the affected bit back from one of the original pics with the relevent bit in focus.
Unfortunately greenfly are actually a hard subject for stacking - they always seem to move slightly and actually don't have an amazing amount of detail for the prog to latch on to. I'd practice on a coin or flower and see how you get on with that.

Brian V.

ok,thanks brian.