AkaSci 🛰️Dec 30

Check out these unbelievably beautiful macro photographs of Slime Moulds by Barry Webb at https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes

The photograph below of glistening, Comatricha nigra slime moulds won the People's Choice award in the macro category of the British Photography Awards 2025.

Also check out the macro images of fungi at https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Fungi

Barry's Instagram site: https://www.instagram.com/barrywebbimages/

More about slime moulds at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold
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Show threadAkaSci 🛰️Dec 30

In this article, English photographer Barry Webb explains that due to the size of the subject, "one picture would not do them justice, you can get virtually nothing in focus".

He describes how he uses a technique called focus bracketing, where dozens of photos are taken.

"You take multiple pictures, sometimes over 100 and it takes tiny little slithers of focus, and then you put all those into software, and that creates your final image."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9409p76qo
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Show threadMidgePhotoDec 30

@AkaSci
The later Canon 7 series cameras* will do it in camera.
Occasionally useful.

* I use them for runners and triathletes, they are also optimised for wildlife, and are, like most equipment these recent several quinquennia very good cameras.

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@Photo55
Do you mean that the later Canon 7 series cameras can be programmed to take multiple images at slightly different focus settings and then stack/stitch them together into a beautiful composite image?
Dec 30 at 12:05pmWeb
Show threadMidgePhotoDec 30
@AkaSci
I think Canon would say that beauty isn't their department, but yes, focus stacking and combining they do. I think it only arrived in the R7 - I have the earlier ones as well.