I've Wanted To Try This Technique For So Long! 

Great video Kim....good to see you trying the photo stacking technique even if there were no fungi....also thank you so much for showing my image at the end of the video.

Beautiful video Kim. The focus stacking technique was so interesting and the images were gorgeous. I do love the peaceful Sunday vibes your videos give along with the encouragement to get out with our cameras ❤

We are getting into our Spring wildflower season here in Southern Australia. Focus stacking for flowers in the wind is nigh impossible, but if you wait for nearly stillness, the software can be forgiving and smart enough to put the images together ok. Sometimes some edges are ghosted and it hasn'nt been able to handle it.. For us, we go early morning and it is all over bt 10 when the breeze picks up. If you have peaking, try that and allow the focus ring adjust on several flower points. For a decent shot, depending on f stop and the depth of field you have on the subject, you will need 6 or more to stack. The flatter the flower and the more parallel your sensor is to the flat section of the flower, the better you will be. Ii is critical to get every stamen tip in focus, so make sure of that. It is great fun and rewarding. Try and get the same flower behind in the shot, blurred of course, but it adds a sense of place and depth. The darker and more contrast the backgrund, the better. I would like to share some of my shots from the last couple of seasons... How do I do that? I think you have a charge for your community group, but my funds are a bit limited. i will investigate options. Cheers, Kim

Beautiful place Kim. Photography really does pull us all together from across the world. cheers from Texas.

I love when you take us to the woodlands it’s exotic for me to see because Australian forests are different dominated by eucalyptus trees. I often forget to look at the macro level your videos remind me to do so.

I enjoy your attitude of relishing in whatever the moment presented vs annoyance at not fulfilling some predetermined plan. Bravo!!! Bill

Hello Kim Nice images, great wellness program ... The wind always add some challenges to any technique

Great video! I enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, Kim! Joy in the process.

Nice photography of flower.

You have done so well, Kim. I've been a fan for a while now, and I've watched your channel grow. Keep up the good work, and good luck.

Nice video❤! I like smart guys just like you who well known their stuff!

Your macro video inspires me to take my macro lens out more often. I need to practice, and David Skinner’s comments are valuable. We are just coming into Spring here in Australia so native orchids will be my focus. Love your walks in nature, so enjoyable

That was Nice Kim thank you.

Thank you!

Excellent!!!😊

Great video Kim. When, I left my house this morning for a combo dog walk and photographic adventure, I left with an open mind, about finding things to photograph. On the walk, I didn't find anything to photograph. However, upon returning home there was a Black tailed deer doe with twins in my yard. I have learned to expect the unexpected. I hope that you have a great week.

Simply fun and enjoyable to watch your videos Kim. Your patience is over the top.

Nice vlog Kim. I can remember we were looking for a stone circle deep within a dense forest in Aberdeenshire 3 years ago. We didn't find it but we did come across some amazing fungi. You went back and photographed it. Just watched that video again. I forgot how good it was. Great memory.... Xx

Lovely and peaceful forest shoot, thank you Kim. As always you instruct so well.

Lovely images Kim....

What a beautiful video Kim! I’ve always wanted to try photo stacking- Thank you for the inspiration to give it a go.

Finding fungi is like finding a new world/universe. The diversity, the colors, shapes and the brevity of their existence. Hope you can find some in the coming weeks. Love the videos you share.

Loving your journey Kim and how you are opening your mindful presence out to the RU-vid. I find making images with focus stacking in mind to be very immersive. ☮

Great video Kim. I love your approach on photography, and your woodlands! I'll have to add those to my list for whenever I make it to Scotland.

Lovely video Kim , storytelling your journey is a nice way of starting my Sunday and the woodlands are so peaceful. Loved the flowers especially the last one . Have a beautiful week looking forward to next podcast listening here in South Carolina USA

I was inspired by your video to go out fungi hunting, something I have never really done before. What a magical morning I had. And I found some interestingly shaped fungi! I didn’t have a macro lens with me, so I'll be going back. Thanks to your recent videos I'm getting into macro photography and loving it. The ground beneath our feet yields such wonderful opportunities for photography. Thanks as always, Kim. Have a great week.

❤ i love the video

I like the theme you are working on. I focus so much on the grand view of the landscape and this reminds me to spend a little more time looking for these small scenes that are all around. I am in Indiana, so we have a similar biome. As we come into autumn I will be looking at the forest a little different.

Another great video Kim some great macro shots of herb-Robert along with its seed heads. It’s a member of the geranium family. It a lovely looking flower when seen in close up. Nature giving beauty in small packages.

Morning Kim. So glad you got around to doing this vlog on macro focus stacking and all of the images you got are simply stunning. You really cracked it. Hope you have a wonderful week.

Herb Robert is very photogenic - I have too many photos of it already, and in some occasions it looks better not focus stacked because the petals are so pretty when they fade out. Macro is great fun to get into, it offers subjects on days when other things might not be working so well!

Herb Robert flowers are a challenge to photograph at any time. They’re so small and bright. Beautiful images! Well done!

I've been in love with the macro photography this month and most of the best photos are macro images which I've captures until now. And certainly i love your images of flowers by creating them by focus stacking. I'll surely try this technique next time I head outside.

Beautiful work as always Kim! I’ve myself have started adventuring out with macro photography. Have a great week from Michigan USA

Great video, great shots, I love how you explain what your doing and why. those images could be printed and framed. I read recently we have talents and a gift, a talent is something that were are good at, art, painting, woodworking, etc, obviously your is photography, and each of us has a gift to share our talent with others in any way we can as you do. Thanks again for a great start to my sunday morning. Have a blessed and safe upcoming week.

I did my first outdoor macro stack last week, photographing bittersweet nightshade flowers with the 105mm f2.8 AFS. I let the camera increment the focus. The 3d effect is amazing, something I've not attained before.

Some years ago, out in my back yard, I found a small patch of fungi. The largest of them was barely 1/4 inch across and only 1/2 inch tall. I got a picture or two... this was BD. (before digital ) and may even be on slide film... too long ago to be sure.

Lovely macro shots of the flowers! O.K., here’s one question that has come up a couple of times this past week: do people on your side of the Atlantic use "fungi" instead of "mushrooms?" You’re the second photographer from the U.K. I've encountered using that nomenclature. Out here, we tend to reserve the term for fungal growths on trees, etc. that don’t look like regular mushrooms. (Also - and I had to point this out to the other photographer as well - "fungi" is plural; a single one is a "fungus.")

Loving your channel. Found you fairly recently so video binge watching. I’m new to photography and photo stacking is something I need to try. I’m fairly restricted only having a Panasonic TZ95 compact but it’s macro abilities seem pretty amazing.

Felt I was with you on your forest walk. Enjoying the way you make the obscure the subject.

so very lovely

The flower is a Herb Robert, very pretty flower. I’ve just tried the Z6ii focus stack the other day, wasn’t very successful to be honest. Can’t wait for the fungi season

So awesome! I enjoyed your images so much. I have finally gotten a camera that I can do multiple exposure photography with. As I only received it yesterday, I haven't tried it yet.

May you have success in locating fungi soon!

The images are stunning Kim! I hope you find the fun guys in nature next time you're out . . . .I love finding them in Tassie when they're in full flight. I've enjoyed some of the images I got last season. Always immersive and thoroughly delightful. We've so many varieties, more in this little part of the country to anywhere else I've seen.

I as always enjoyed the video. Fungi are acfascinating subject i find, if you can find them that is. They are very much here today gone tommorow.

Informative video, Kim. Your exposures are always perfect. Do you use the light-meter in your Nikon or an external, hand-held meter? Might you devote part of a video to demonstrating how to get the perfect exposure, especially deep in the woods. I look forward to all your videos.

I am thinking I have to do focus stacking to take insects, but it is such a cumbersome process for things that move quickly.

I would be using my Olympus OM-D E-Mx and 60mm macro lens. Probably at F2.8 aka wide open, probably ten to twenty images. From that I can stack in Ps. I can also choose one or two images to make a mostly blurred that Charlotte might like, or get something that's all sharp. Last year I did that with a patch of kangaroo paws, it's improbably sharp all through. Again, F2.8. Mostly, maybe always, I do it hand held. There are people who photograph peacock spiders using Canon's MP-E 65 to obtain high magnification. Hand held, and they stack focus. I've not mastered that, the lens doesn't focus. Peacok spiders are almost all indigenous to Australia. I think there's a handful in PNG and one or two in China. However, they are jumping spiders and other countries have jumping spiders. There's nothing wrong with photographing dead flowers, fungi or animals. One of the most important photos is of the Napalm Girl. Look it up. It's not a pretty sight.

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Hi Kim on in camera focus stacking on OM cameras there is something called differential which is the focus distance between each shot should be the same on Nikon cameras.

I'm a 'Fun Guy' (or so I'm told) but I don't think That's quite what Fungi you were looking for is it? 😂😂(Oh dear, I do apologise Kim!) Lovely video as usual.

That was so interesting, however my camera system does not offer focus stacking but it does offer aperture bracketing which looks like it would offer similar results. So I’ll give it ago, all I need now is a calm day which is a rarity these days. Many thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed the video as usual Kim. It's a shame that you didn't get the image's of the fungi. Nice image's of the wild flowers. Hopefully the fungi will be around around next time. Atb, Tim.

Do you need good light when stacking, if so do you use added light, flash etc. Nice topic.

The trouble with the focus stacking feature on the Zs is that it's not really meant for macro. It basically starts at your nearest point then shoots X number of shots till it gets to infinity. If you could set it up with a start and end point, it would be great. It does work well for landscapes.

the worst bit about stacking is getting home to find you missed a tiny % of the image so it looks completely wrong. But when you get a lovely image definitely worth the effort

Another relaxing episode to unwind with now that 'Ive just got home from a night shift in town. Your enthusiasm for forests and woodlands really shows in your presentation. I too have noticed the subtle colour changes in the trees in my local park and my garden. I've also noticed that the weather has changed a couple of weeks early and the autumnal wet and windy weather has arrived on my coastline with a vengeance. And when life gives me lemons, I will go out and film some cracking waves crashing on the sea defenses.

I have not been successful with the focus stacking feature of my Z 5.

"Fun-guy"? 😳 Yes I know what you mean but that's just how I keep hearing it! 😂

The conditions look to dry for fungi to sprout, they need moist/damp conditions.

Macro is something I've only seriously tried this year. Previously I've dabbled in Macro photography of insects and it's been really disappointing this year. I don't know whether the birds have eaten all the insects or whether something else has been going on but there's been so few insects this year.

I'm a pretty fun guy... But seriously, a great sundaymorning video Kim!

If this was filmed last week or so . Tad early tbh as some mushies are poppin thro now ..

'') I luv macro, but Id noticed the last 5 yrs..the bug population seems to have fallen, was wondering if you had noticed any changes

nice photography from what little bit I saw. You spent far too much time rationalizing, analyzing, and just yapping about what you wanted to do... In other words, too much time talking and not enough time doing. If this is how your videos are, then I'll just skim them over and move on. I'd rather see more doing than yapping any day.