Nivarna drop.

[Vivax]

My 1st try at stacking, its not as easy as it looks when looking at lots of other shots here :scratch , so tips welcome :D

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t35/vivax_photos/nivarnadrop.jpg

Cheers

[schmoo]

:rofl What a great idea! You might have been flustered by the process of getting this image but I think it worked pretty well.

[matasa]

very nice :thumb

Can you explain please why you did staking on this shot?

[Lord Vetinari]

Excellent result :)
Brian V.

[Vivax]

Thanks for the comments, Very appreciated.

Matasa- I have had this image in my mind for ages (After seeing some drop shots) I tried a couple but the DOF was so small I found it hard to get a good result as I only have the onboard flash at the mo which causes awful reflections so had to use a desk lamp for lighting and wide apertures. Dowloaded the CombineZM program which although a little baffling at first seems a great freebie tool.

[Lord Vetinari]

very nice :thumb

Can you explain please why you did staking on this shot?

It's actually quite hard to get both the water drop and the refracted image in focus at the same time. With a flat subject such as a picture/photo as used in this case it's a little bit easier but with a real 3-D subject being refracted the refracted image has a suprising amount of depth. So focus stacking just makes it a lot easier with a 2-D subject and is just about essential for a 3-D subject.
You can see what I mean in the example shots used in this tutorial. http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/72157594313729574/

brian V.

[matasa]

Thank you very much Vivax and Brian, your information is very helpful, I will try in nearest future and share results with you :)

thanks again

[Skippy]

My 1st try at stacking, its not as easy as it looks when looking at lots of other shots here :scratch , so tips welcome :D

Cheers

You folks just amaze me with what you come up with :clap
That's a really cool shot Vivax :nod

How clever are you hey :thumb .... Skippy :D
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