I broke out the macro equipment on Sunday afternoon to play with some of the automated focus bracketing and stacking modes in the OM-1. While taking pictures of the brightly-coloured boxelder bug nymphs on our mountain laurel tree, I just happened to notice that one of my subjects was dicing with death as it casually wandered past a crab spider hiding in a curled-up leaf.
This image is a composite of about a dozen exposures shot using the OM-1’s automatic focus bracketing mode. I used a combination of Photoshop’s “Align Images” and “Blend Images” to stack the resulting frames with some manual help in blending after the automatic software didn’t get things quite right.
For the technically inclined...