Fishing spider. I found this one dead, but still pretty clean. It's pretty big over 3 inches tip to tip. This is a handheld focus stack of 16 shots. I didn't want too much depth of field because the abdomen is pretty deflated and caved in so I left the front legs a little soft to give it more balance. Panasonic GX85, Olympus 60mm macro at f8, rynox 250. Very slight crop to cleanup the edges still bigger both directions than a single frame. Any CC is always welcome.
3 inches tip to tip?! You gotta get yourself a machete if you find one alive :D
Very nice shot anyways! Leaving the right front leg out of focus is maybe a good call, but the left one seems a bit mushy. I would have either set them in focus or cropped them out, but this is just personal preference. The transition into the background is stunningly good!
Did you consider stop down your aperture to like f22 or something to use less shots?
Thanks for the input. I see what you're saying about the left leg (actually pedipalp) another frame or two probably wouldn't have hurt. Just didn't want razor sharp then fall off to nothing Ive seen too many like that that look strangely "fake" too me. f8 seems to be the sweet spot for this lens any more and it starts to get into diffraction. Up to 13 is still usable if I need to. here is a single frame at 22 though I took just to see how soft it would get. Probably should have slowed the shutter though and would have had less noise and been a bit better. Not much post done to this one just bumped the exposure up a bit and a little noise reduction. You can really see how deflated the abdomen is.
Yeah, looking at that image, you made a good call stacking at f8 for that picture!