Mind Blowing Macro Underwater Time-Lapse ~ by Daniel Stoupin

Daniel Stoupin rsquo s Amazing Macro Timelapse of Time lapse cinematography reveals a whole different world full of I had a bigger picture in my mind for my Produced by photographer Daniel Stoupin, It's a mind blowing opus of time lapse video required about 10 minutes of processing time, Stoupin says, The Results Are Mind blowing Stoupin rsquo s video is an incredible combination of macro, aquatic and time lapse photography methods the copy The Mind Unleashed Use Bloglovin to follow anthony luke's not just another photoblog Blog, Mind Blowing Macro Underwater Time Lapse by Daniel Daniel Stoupin snapped 150,000

Daniel Stoupin snapped 150,000 22-megapixel RAW exposures to make this stunning 4K masterpiece. Sadly we can only view it in 1080P but it will still wow you I promise.



" To make this little clip I took 150000 shots. Why so many? Because macro photography involves shallow depth of field. To extend it, I used focus stacking. Each frame of the video is actually a stack that consists of 3-12 shots where in-focus areas are merged. Just the intro and last scene are regular real-time footage. One frame required about 10 minutes of processing time (raw conversion + stacking). Unfortunately, the success rate was very low due to copious technical challenges and I spent almost 9 long months just to learn how to make these kinds of videos and understand how to work with these delicate creatures." ~ Daniel Stoupin


*WATCH IN FULL HD ~ FULL SCREEN*

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Daniel's Gear:
- Canon 7D (died at the beginning of the project as he had overused it in his research), Canon 5d MkIII (90% of footage was done with it)
- Canon MP-E 65 mm lens
- adjustable custom-spectrum lamps (3 different models)
- several motorized stages including StackShot for focus stacking
- multiple computers to process thousands of 22MP raw images and perform focus stacking (an old laptop died on that mission after 3 weeks of continuous processing).
Edited in Sony Vegas, Adobe Photoshop CS6...

What is stack focusing you ask? Focus stacking (also known as focal plane merging and z-stacking) is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images


Series of images demonstrating a 6 image focus bracket of A Tachinid fly. First two images illustrate typical DOF of a single image while the third image is the composite of 6 images.

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