CLEANING UP IN POST AFTER STACKING
Why is your insect subject so clean? This question comes up very often when I post a stacked image on Facebook or Flickr. The reason for...
REVERSING EL-NIKKOR 50 F/2.8N ENLARGER LENS
Though my first extreme macro lens is not this EL-Nikkor 50 f/2.8N enlarger lens, it is the second one after searching through the...
USING RAYNOX CLOSE-UP LENS AS TUBE LENS FOR INFINITE MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE
Overview Many people started out macro photography with close up add-on lenses, some are cheap and some are not so cheap. One set of well...
MAKING A FOCUS ASSIST LED RING LIGHT FOR MANUAL MACRO LENS
When taking pictures using a macro lens, shallow depth of field usually mandates a rather small aperture to gain sharpness. With...
DIFFUSE YOUR LIGHT, OR ELSE!
OK, that sounds a bit harsh. Then again, almost every (extreme) macro photographer knows this and tries very hard to put as much...
ANALYSIS OF MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN OPTICAL AND MOTION AXIS FOR FOCUS STACKING.
I have been asked many times about why there are streaking patterns around border of final stacked image. Well, the most common cause of...