Name That Tooth – The Answer

“There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, … and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness. … But none could rival her, Shelob the Great, last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world.”

I can’t stump you folks.

I’ve got to say, this photo stacking has amazing capability.  The detail is impressive and the stitching is imperceptible.  I tried stacking jpegs and then raw files.  I thought the composite made from raw files looked very slightly better but it took an hour and a half to process.  That’s more than double the jpeg time.

Focus Stack – Dried Flower

When is a dried flower better than live spider?  When you’re doing a focus stack.  When the subject doesn’t move it comes out a lot better.

The first three photos are three of the 136 photos that I stacked together.  Notice depth of focus in each only comprises a small fraction of the total image.

 

 

 

Next is the photo stacked image followed by three magnified areas of it.

 

 

 

 

I think I’m getting the hang of this thing.