My Trichome shots there are taken hand held with a point and shoot camera (olympus tg6). It does have integrated focus stacking as an option but I’d both have to use a tripod and a different light source. I like the way the pictures come out more with the flash, which isn’t compatible with focus stacking on this camera.
I have messed around with focus stacking on my Nikon camera - I still haven’t really mastered it yet though. Any tips would be appreciated
@syzygy Those looks great! I remember seeing one photographer on youtube talking about painting the light in with, maybe an extended capture or something… *googling
Light painting is the art of creating photos by setting long exposure times on a camera and using a moving light source to “paint.” A light painting photographer opens a camera’s shutter and keeps it open as they draw in the air with a light source.
Light painting is easy in principle but takes a bit of experimenting to get the light how you want it. These were taken in dark on a long exposure a a torch was quickly used to piant in the light source.
@syzygy not much advice I can offer you but I use a hack on my canon camera to implement a script that allows me to set bracketing parameters. Then its a mater of using a macro slide rail on the tripod to multi bracket them and shoot multi pics then move a millimeter or less then multi bracket and so on until I get the depth I want or can achieve.
Heres my white widow from silver leaf seeds also was mucking about with the light painting and got a nice set of pics. I wont add any more here as it diverts from the budshots but may open a topic on it if people are interested.
Goldfish came down today, probably couldve gone another few days but some of the nugs had a decent amber count even with the white hairs up top. Artificial fruit gum smell coming through
