What I Often Overlook: Stealth Wonders of Macro Focus Stacking

[elfbob]

I was looking for a new interesting flower for macro imaging, i saw this somewhat ordinary yellow specimen, then i peered inside & took several macro shots, i discovered this 5 lobed disc at the flowers inside bottom but its full intricate structure couldn't be appreciated until i captured 15 sequential macro images & utilized the macro stacked focus program Combine ZP

[elfbob]

Macro stacked focus of small purple flower, some difficulty getting lighting correct

Macro stacked focus of weed flower's seed pod using 2 exten tubes + 70-200mm F4L set at 100mm



Occasionally small flowers get positioned at an odd angle for sequential macro image captures resulting in FlowerSaurus, i can hear the music from Jaws in the background


Very small peach color clover flowers on clover weed stem; image compiled from 24 sequential 1/64" incremental captures @f/4.0 using 2 exten tubes & Combine ZP
Purple Clover weed flowers
image composed of 21 serial captures @ 1/64" intervals