Focus Stacking Tutorial - Part 7 Editing the stack

[brianhphotos]

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• Main image taken with the Olympus E-M1 III and 60mm macro lens + extension tubes and 2x converter
• Shot at F8, 1/3Sec, ISO200
• Stacked with Zerene Stacker (47 separate shots)
• Edited with Capture One and Aurora HDR

The purpose of this post is to show you how I edit my stacks using Capture One and Aurora HDR

This was the original image straight out of Zerene Stacker.

Please click on the link below to watch a video I made showing in detail how I use Capture One and Aurora HDR to edit my stacks.
Editing the stack video

And some 100% crops of a few of the problem areas showing before and after images.

Before.

After.

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After

Here are links to previous parts in the series:-

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Preparing Insects
Part 3 Preparing Flowers
Part 4 Equipment
Part 5 Shooting the stack
Part 6 Processing the stack

Thanks for taking a look at my photography
@brianhphotos.

Comments

[qurator]

Manually curated by ackhoo from the Qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

[brianhphotos]

Thank you ackhoo

[ackhoo]

Very welcome! :)

[ackhoo]

A face only a mother could love... lol...

[brianhphotos]

I'm sure very attractive in the hover fly world. lol

[ackhoo]

Yeahhh, and those eyelashes(?)..... oooohhhh, absolutely divine! :D

[friendlymoose]

Wow! What an amazing detail on these pictures. Keep posting these shots!

[brianhphotos]

Thank you. I'll try, although with winter on its way in the UK may find it more difficult to find insects.

[friendlymoose]

It's spider season 😉

[brianhphotos]

Yes thank you. I need to think positive.

[akhyar23]

Wonderful photo
the use of macro photography is very good.

[brianhphotos]

Thank you.

[vinucreationss]

Really amazing!

[brianhphotos]

Thank you.

[brianhphotos]

Thank you very much.