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This beast turned up in the house. I think it is one of the Cerambycidea (round-necked longhorn beetles) but I have no idea what species.
These are focus bracketed, denoised in DXO pureraw4, exposure levels adjusted in lightroom, then aligned and focus stacked (automatically) in photoshop -
This is a single shot from above -
A front on shot using the in-camera focus stacker. Firstly using the same approach as above on the individual raw files then the camera produced stack. In this instance, the photoshop stacking gives a noticeably better result. The benefit of the in-camera stacker is I could focus on the mouth parts and let the camera shift the focus forward then back. With the focus bracket approach I had to pick some spot in front of the bug for the original focus. I wish the bracket allowed a N steps in front and M steps behind the original focus point setting rather than just N steps behind the original focus.
In camera stack version -
These are all from OM-1 mk2 with 60mm macro.
These are focus bracketed, denoised in DXO pureraw4, exposure levels adjusted in lightroom, then aligned and focus stacked (automatically) in photoshop -
This is a single shot from above -
A front on shot using the in-camera focus stacker. Firstly using the same approach as above on the individual raw files then the camera produced stack. In this instance, the photoshop stacking gives a noticeably better result. The benefit of the in-camera stacker is I could focus on the mouth parts and let the camera shift the focus forward then back. With the focus bracket approach I had to pick some spot in front of the bug for the original focus. I wish the bracket allowed a N steps in front and M steps behind the original focus point setting rather than just N steps behind the original focus.
In camera stack version -
These are all from OM-1 mk2 with 60mm macro.
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