i love and enjoy the nature , if you ask me is the lifes important or my pictures more important .. I will choose lifes for sure … and hope everyone do love, enjoy and protect them …
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more caterpillar
Caterpillar stand up …
… Damselfy face …
slow on macro .. or think stop for months .. but think I still have too many macro pictures not filter yet ..
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more Damselfly pictures
a Gold bar – Wasp
while my trip to Bake’lalan , I did spent ~2 hours in a lovely jungle purely for MACRO.. a beautiful jungle with so much thing found …
One of them is a GOLD bar … I thought why a gold flying around while I saw this … and when I approach .. just notice this is a WASP …
How I PP MACRO pictures – making gif animation
Every macro shot that I shoot, I trying my best to get few focus shot to increase my MACRO picture DOF which previously discuss how I stack it @ How I increase MACRO DOF . Because of that, I always shoot few shots before I stop and while I am shooting I will not leave the insect but keep monitor them… some time, they will so some action which may attract me to capture the action to make it as an animation to show …
And one of very early day share
another Tiger beetle
How Young Tiger performance
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2750/4066074743_9d5ab59482_o.gif
How mature Tiger performance
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2779/4066071239_5f6aaf5a87_o.gif
and … this is 😀
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/4066076445_03b911fc6b_o.gif
Let me share how I make my gif file… there are many software can make that but I use only Photoshop to create the animation gif file …
1. load the file into stack
2. if you doing this with full size it need a lot of memory to work on .. so normally resize before load into single stack. it will align the pictures …
3. crop the main object so all the picture in same size and same location
4. from the left panel (layer) save file by file with the new orientation and size
5. after save all the file , load it again into a stack
6. click on Windows –> Animation
7. from the animation window, choose all the files, or re-order the files. highlight all then choose the time for each picture to appear
8. save as web, choose gif file … then the gif file animation is ready
and my final result
MACRO PP II : How I Stitch/Pano for MACRO
I am working on 2 pano MACRO shot … and think this is quite important especially for MP-E65 user.. so just have a quick copy and paste over
Why I need to Stitch ?
I start stitch my macro due to I have my MPE where only do minimum 1:1 (1x life time) and any object that >22mm will not fit in single picture frame … and how I get the whole object into a single picture …… hmmm I am thinking a stitch it …. and I have my very 1st try while outing to Fraser Hill 21 Nov 2008, where I saw plenty of BIG moth and I cannot fit it into a single picture e.g.
[shot with 1:1] , and this is too big for me and I am thinking how I got the whole moth view .. and I finally did something for a smaller one
[stitch picture]
[picture 2:1]
How I do Stitch ???
1. for start, how we shoot
We need to shot picture at same level of view so I normally shot at standard angle where esily to shoot another e.g. face direct view, side view …….. e.g.
How I do Stitch ???
1. for start, how we shoot
We need to shot picture at same level of view so I normally shot at standard angle where esily to shoot another e.g. face direct view, side view …….. e.g.
i. face focus on left eye
ii. focus on right eye
iii. focus on face
2. use Photoshop “Photomerge” option
3. i use “interactive layout”
4. select the file you wish to stitch
5. this will take some time depend how many pictures to stitch and your PC power 😀
– if this is not auto merge then try to move around the picture to try manual to merge the pictures ….
6. click Ok after #5, then it will come out like standard JPEG with multiple layers
7. for the non-cover area, either crop it away or clone it 😀
8. normally I will use multiple shots again to stack the focus area by using method discuss in
“How I Increase My Macro Picture DOF”
…..please comment and let me know if you need further question.
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