Hi,
I've lately been trying to do some Macro Photography, Canon 5DIV and EF 100 f/2.8 Macro lens.
I have a dead Dragonfly that I am using as a subject. Currently I have a cheap light tent with
two daylight Lamps outside of it. I'm also using three flexible LED lamps to light the
subject from close-up.
Please ignore the framing etc. of the attached shot, I just wanted some close-ups of the side
of the body and the hairs. This is a stack of around 40 shots, using Zerene stacker.
IMHO the lighting is still too harsh. I have built caps for the LED lamps using tracing/greaseproof paper which
makes their light more diffused, but looking in detail I see too many blown-out reflections in the water droplets.
The eye had a very large blown-out area that I needed to edit out.
Does anyone have any ideas how to improve the lighting?
I also added a close crop to show the detail as the normal size supported here is too small for the details.
Cheers Brian
I've lately been trying to do some Macro Photography, Canon 5DIV and EF 100 f/2.8 Macro lens.
I have a dead Dragonfly that I am using as a subject. Currently I have a cheap light tent with
two daylight Lamps outside of it. I'm also using three flexible LED lamps to light the
subject from close-up.
Please ignore the framing etc. of the attached shot, I just wanted some close-ups of the side
of the body and the hairs. This is a stack of around 40 shots, using Zerene stacker.
IMHO the lighting is still too harsh. I have built caps for the LED lamps using tracing/greaseproof paper which
makes their light more diffused, but looking in detail I see too many blown-out reflections in the water droplets.
The eye had a very large blown-out area that I needed to edit out.
Does anyone have any ideas how to improve the lighting?
I also added a close crop to show the detail as the normal size supported here is too small for the details.
Cheers Brian