Stacking with Tamron

[sury]

I stumbled upon these yesterday and did some post processing. I haven't touched this lens in a while. Perhaps it is
time to take it for a spin. 20 images stacked using Zerene Stacker.

[Birma]

I like the subtle colours and the back lighting.

[jbtaylor]

What about this image made you think stacking would be required?
I have not done any research on stacking. Any info would be appreciated.

[sury]

JB,
Perhaps my blind spot is not able to spot a shot. No pun intended.
It is more of other way around. I decided to to stacking since I did not
use my X-Z slider and the Tamron 60f2 macro lens in a while. Took
bunch of shots in and around home. Posted the best of the lot.
There are different kind of stacking that serve different purposes,
the astro stacking for adding brightness, the HDR for dynamic range
and focus stacking for increasing DoF. This link gives you some info.
to start with, and I use Zerene stacker which can be used for free for
30 days and find it easy to use. That site also has a nice tutorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

As for accessories, I have extension tubes, CUL set (Close Up Lens),
couple of reverse mount adapters, and 2D macro slider, (X-Z), a MD
mount macro bellows. As for lenses, I have the following:
a tamron 60 f2, Sigma 70-300 with macro, and two MD mount
(Vivitar 90 f2.5 +1:1 adaper & 100mmf4), lenses.
With extension tubes, CUL set and reverse mount adapters, any lens
can be made to function like a macro.

Sury

[jbtaylor]

I will check it out.
Thanks.
JT

[sury]

You are welcome. I have included a link to my flickr album. The first three are the
images with different parts in focus and the last two are final results. You can see how
the focus "shifts" across the center of the flower.

https://flic.kr/s/aHskjPj7Uo