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focus stacking has blurry spots

Started Aug 6, 2021 | Questions thread
John K Veteran Member • Posts: 9,870
Re: focus stacking has blurry spots

davescliches wrote:

If you want to see real top flight macro look no further than this guy ........

Thomas Shahan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmMcCjEU68Y&t=10s

........ the master of insect macro !!

I am familiar with Thomas's work -we follow each other on Flickr. I like his photography when viewed on the web, but he crops his shots so heavily that they look almost pixelated in full page print. I would not print most of his images above a 4"x6" size. IMHO the way his photos looked, when published full page in Popular Photography, did his reputation more harm than good.

Tomas takes three to five frame focus stacks, normally no higher than 2x, knowing that he has to focus stack because he is going to crop his shots heavily in post. If he did not focus stack there would not be much detail in his photos after cropping, even resized for the web. Nothing wrong with any of that, until you want to make a full page print.

Note: Not trying to put Thomas down, but I know how he shoots and it does not work for me. I like to make poster size prints on canvas and gallery wrap them, and that is one of the reasons why I do not crop my images in post.

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Always minimal post processing and no cropping -unless you count the viewfinder...

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