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So I found this image taken by Peter Sabol, he talk a lot of using focus stacking to take his images with a 100mm f/2.8
My question is not the technique itself, but the way the dew drops on background grass produced the very powerful circle outlines, and not just a a smudgy blotch like one gets with an out of focus traffic light or lightbulb.
It reminded me of the way you can tape a cardboard negative-shaoe cutout on the lens and transform all point light sources to that shape.
Would this work with christmas lights in the background using the cutout? Or is the way these image's dewdrop outlines still remain "sharp" due to the way focused sunlight performs at the macro-photography scale?
I would prefer to reproduce this effect at a human scale, but not get a splodge.
My question is not the technique itself, but the way the dew drops on background grass produced the very powerful circle outlines, and not just a a smudgy blotch like one gets with an out of focus traffic light or lightbulb.
It reminded me of the way you can tape a cardboard negative-shaoe cutout on the lens and transform all point light sources to that shape.
Would this work with christmas lights in the background using the cutout? Or is the way these image's dewdrop outlines still remain "sharp" due to the way focused sunlight performs at the macro-photography scale?
I would prefer to reproduce this effect at a human scale, but not get a splodge.
