Earlier, I had explained how I needed the old Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens to get the Canon 77D back in the game. The lens has arrived and it seems to be working fine.
Today's Macro Monday theme on Flickr was "sports," bearing in mind that the representation of sport had to fall with a three-inch diameter. My choice for that macro was to shoot the hub and spokes of my bicycle. To try out the new/old lens, I set up a 20-shot stack. From that, I picked alternating shots and stacked them that way. This save a lot of processing time, especially since my laptop storage is teetering on "full." Not owning any specialized photo stacking software, I performed that job in PhotoShop. I left some blurry areas amongst where some of the spokes crossed over. I laboriously went in and used the clone stamp and heal tool to fill in the blurred spaces.
Here's the final product:
The stacking really helped to bring out the depth of this picture. You would have to know what to look for to even suspect that this picture had been edited. In my defense, I wasn't putting in something that wasn't there, I was restoring some tiny blurry areas that PhotoShop had created when it processed that stack.
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