dad went too far.

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Come on Dad... Hurry up and take the picture...

Playing with some toys, with my son. That is how this started. About 10 mins into playing I go this idea. With a very sour look on my son's face, the shot was set up.  

so this was created using my 70-200 F2.8 and two speedlites. One on the ground behind and to the right of the ring, with a plastic bounce diffuser. The second on a tripod, with a 43" shoot through umbrella in front and to the right, pointing down at about a 45 degree angle. . Both speedlites were set to 1/64th power and 35mm zoom. Shutter speed was 1/100th at 70mm F8.0. Hand held as close to the floor as i could get. 

My son has since lost all interest in letting me play with his toys... 

Jon

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This week I decided to try some stack focusing. This photo was 15 photos blended together in photoshop CS5. I took every photo at a different focal length so everything was in focus, step by step.

The issue I ran into was the exposure. To get the marble properly exposed, I had to use a faster shutter speed, but that made the handle, and wood too dark. To solve this I basically took the same photos, at different shutter speeds and combined them, similar to an HDR photo.

The end result is multiple things in focus, with no bokeh, or anything out of focus. I purposely kept the little dust "hair" in focus. That was my first focal length, followed by the marble, then the handle, then the wood.

I used my canon 50D with a sigma 70-300 on the macro setting. I believe this was shot at f5.6. Using a tripod, and manual focus, I was able to step though the focal lengths and achieve the photo.

Thanks again for reading

Jon