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To stack or not to stack

Started Sep 26, 2019 | Polls thread
deanimator Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: Depends...

John K wrote:

deanimator wrote:

If you're going to use microscope objectives, don't even think about it without stacking.

I'm not sure why anybody would want a single image of a PAINFULLY thin in focus slice of an insect antenna.

Absolutely, which is why I said in my OP that for the subjects and magnifications that I shoot focus stacking isn't necessary. But there are a lot of scenes and subjects where you're going to have to focus stack unless all you want is an abstract image.

The problem that I see in the macro discipline is people stacking EVERYTHING, and doing so at the expense of composition and lighting (light quality so poor it's actually robbing them of detail). I know several macro photographers who, if they just used the rule of thirds, could be on the cover of just about any major magazine...

Most of what I do is macro, and most of that is in the studio.  A good portion of that is with microscope objectives, or conventional lenses at greater than 1:1.

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