Re: LED Light Panel for Macro Photography
Mike Engles wrote:
I think I gave both sides of the story, but as you might have gathered, I favour single, shot using positioning to maximise DOF.and control of lighting to make images look as natural as possible.In a way to me, impressive as they are,the human eye cannot take in all the detail stacked images produce and instead focus on the irregularities that actually catch the eye, because they look 'odd'.
Some stacks are no good, very distracting and, as you said, look odd. But many others are incredible and I dont think look odd at all. Deeper dof on its own can be distracting in any genre of photography. I just processed a large stack of an orb weaver, but Im going to redo it with less stacked to bring focus back to only head/eyes.
Either way, there is a place for focus stacking even if its not your thing. I primarily shoot single frames myself and like to use some background color or environment the insect is standing on or perched in. But even in those types of shots, Ive seen incredible uses for stacking. Like I said, for your use, there is certainly no point in constant light. I still dont understand why you would habe even attempted it for single frames at higher fstop. Clearly, its use is for wider apertures and stacking, or for photographing, say mushrooms where using a tripod is practical.
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