Sue and I visited Brandon County Park twice in the last 10 days to photograph Fungi. Last week we met up with the Cambridge Camera Club. Neither of us had a good photographic day, I only had one in focus (just) and that serves me right for trying something new.
There are a few iPhone photos here too. The rest are all focused stacked with my Canon R plus Helicon Focus Tube.
The tube is programmed by the iPhone as to what lens on what camera at what f stop you want to use. I typically have the Canon 100mm L Macro lens and use f/5.6 Its a 10 second job to connect the phone and change the aperture and or lens.
I used my new tripod. I have reverted back to Manfrotto 190xpro4. My three Legged thing now resides with Sue. I found around the house over lockdown when I needed a tripod I used the Manfrotto and not the Three Legged Thing. It was not carbon fibre so quite heavy. as I just get on with it so well. This one is a carbon fibre.
I lit the Fungi on some photos with a small Godex LED Matrix mounted on a 'Small Rig Arm' - just to lift the shadows under the Fungi
Most of these Fungi are from 30 stacked images. I used a Neewer interval timer so I did not have to count the number of shots. The Helicon Focus Tube is not 'fast' compared with say the olympus but with Live View enabled and focus peaking selected I can watch the focus tract across the object. If it has not travelled far enough then I shoot another 30 and stop it when it looks like being in focus at the end. 30 shots only take typically say 20 secs, depending on the shutter speed. I set the tube to focus from the nearest point and travel towards infinity.
Images loaded into Lightroom and then stacked using Helicon Focus.
