Tonight was camera club night. It was a member’s night, when we get to choose what we are going to do, well, almost. I think it might have been Tim, the club chairman, who decided the topic for the evening.
Some members brought in setups; Jon was showing how to do photo-stacking, Mike was doing macro, and another member was showing his setup for doing still life. There were a couple of those.
I had taken in my D5300, the macro lens, the lights, and of course the lego figures. I got the figures set up so that I could focus on each figure in turn, and that should provide the basis for a photo stacking exercise.
I did a couple of different configurations of the lego figures. I am not really that competent with macro lenses, and wanted to learn some things about them, e.g. how fare away can I be for the subject to fill the screen. I also learned that I really do need to get a remote control for the camera. When it came to the stacking, the end result had a slight blur on one of the figures, indicating that it or the camera moved during the exposure. Much more likely to be the camera, rather than the figure.
Tim was using his laptop to demonstrate how to do focus stacking. He was talking Elayne through it, so I stood and listened. He had produced a quick guide on how to do it, very useful. The way he laid it out, made it look very straightforward. I’m looking forward to having a go.
We all agreed that it had been a good and entertaining evening, with a bit of learning thrown in as well.
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