It is over 18 months since the previous entry. Much has happened since then, the most important of course being Coronavirus and all the implications of that. Since my wife and I are in the "vulnerable persons" category we have not been off our property in 8 months apart from a couple of visits to the doctor and dentist. My photography since March 2020 has been solely what I could find in our garden.
Prior to Coronavirus, in Spring 2019, I did an exercise (written up here) comparing single-image captures with focus-stacked images for botanical subjects to help me get a better balance between the two methods. Since then I have been using both methods. Sometimes it is too breezy for stacking to work, and sometimes it is obvious that only stacking will work for a particular subject, so in either case I use just one of the methods. Very often though I use both methods and choose which method's images I like best for each individual subject.
I have simplified my processing for focus stacks and now have a workflow that is fairly fast and efficient. Stacks can consume huge amounts of time. To avoid that, when stacks become difficult I simply move on to another subject.
Here are some examples. I picked these without regard to whether they were stacks or single-capture images. As it turns out half of them are focus stacked (from 6K video) and half are single-capture images. this is a fair reflection of how I have been using the two methods. The first eight used a Panasonic G9 with Olympus 60mm macro, the last but one used a Panasonic G80 with Olympus 60mm macro and the last one used a Panasonic TZ90 pocket superzoom.
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