Sony Alpha Awards 2018 - Macro Category Winner
Alien Resurrection by Chris Cope
While following an invading procession of itchy grubs in my backyard, they lead me to find a dead but unusually colourful wasp, now he lives again.
Alien Resurrection – is a 6 image focus stacked image using my A7RM2, a tripod and the small flexible spot autofocus area to capture focus on key parts of the wasp with extremely narrow depth of field at f/2.8 on the SEL90M28. The foreground scene is water condensation inside a clear plastic container with the wasp placed on top. The Lighting I have used is a combination of backlit sunlight and my trusty old HVL-F42AM with the Sony ADP-MAA adapter and a pixel FC-313 flashgun cable giving both a pleasing bokeh effect in the background and hard abstract highlights from the condensation in the foreground.
Post processing was a Lightroom to Photoshop to Lightroom round trip for the focus stack, spot cleanup and high pass filter. Then a .5 stop dodge and burn to the subject, top and bottom of the image with the adjustment brush back in lightroom to give extra depth and that floating in air feeling.
Sony Alpha Awards 2018 - Macro Category Winner - Alien Resurrection by Chris Cope
