Shinestacker Trials

[Wes Hall]

How does everyone find macro photography? Me, I’ve fascination and a raft of associated hobbies that provide endless subjects.

And today I’ve come across a new software package that’s made the D.O.F issue somewhat a micro trouble.

Trying out Shinestacker, fee to use and works with Linux so good start, but the real gem is how (relatively) simple and straightforward the UI and process is- unusual experience for me after attempts with Huggin.

Couple of attempts from today- static subjects really are a must as you will see from my harlequin shrimp attempts using a ‘twist & burst’ method on the D2HS



More experiments to run with this software but so far, very impressed.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I'm not sure that I have ever mastered the whole stacking problem. Affinity Photo has stacking as an option when your opening a set of images. I usually use a focus rail and try to increment my way from front to real but that ends up with me wondering if I'm not actually changing the perspective. I've used the internal stacking on my mFT bodies and it's OK. A lot of what I've done are flowers and watches.

Your images are fantastic!