July 29th & 31st 2021
LOCATION: 29th - around KW. 31st - St Thomas | WEATHER: Sunny but with some cloud |
Most of the images below were shot around a couple of Conservation areas, near St Thomas. One in particular (Corner Corners) is excellent for Butterflies and I always love visiting this little butterfly paradise.
The Ambush Bug was shot here in Kitchener, and using a stacking technique of 15 images, using a Wemacro automated focusing rail and processed in Photoshop. Combined with the Wemacro I used my Canon R5 and the MP-E 65mm, which is one the best Macro lenses out there, but I will say it's not that easy to use, as it is a manual lens with no focusing, so to focus you physically have to move the lens (hence the focusing rail). Not a lens for the inexperienced unfortunately.
July 23rd - 28th 2021
LOCATION: Out and about. 28th was St Thomas | WEATHER: Good sunny weather |
July 18th - 20th 2021
LOCATION: Kitchener to Paris | WEATHER: Mainly hot and sunny |
July 16th 2021
LOCATION: Flamborough area | WEATHER: Muggy hot, but no sun |
Target area today was around Beverley Swamp ... which can be really good for birds at the right time of year, but can, during the hot months, be pretty decent for bugs as well. Over the last few days I have seen Question Mark Butterflies on a few occasions, including today, but they seem to be evading their chance of the limelight, as I have yet to get a snap.
July 14th 2021
LOCATION: Just outside Cambridge | WEATHER: Mix of Cloud and a touch of Sun |
Today I was seen a few Duskywing species and managed a couple of shots of a couple of different species. In the past I have often ignored these drab ones, but when you look close they are quite attractive.
July 12th & 13th 2021
LOCATION: 12th at Port Dover. 13th Cambridge | WEATHER: Mainly cloudy with occasional sun |
July 10th & 11th 2021
LOCATION: Port Dover area | WEATHER: Mainly cloudy, but occasional sun |
July 5th - 7th 2021
LOCATION: Kitchener area | WEATHER: Generally sunny |
What is focus stacking? Over simplifying, focus stacking simply means taking multiple photographs of the same subject, each with a slightly different focused spot. Achieving this I personally use a focusing rail, that I incrementally adjust to get a progressive focused point. This is followed by the use post-processing software .. I use Photoshop CC (there are several other programs that can do this), to align the focused portion of each image into one final-and-focused image.
July 2nd - 4th 2021
LOCATION: In and around my home town of Kitchener | WEATHER: Hot !! |