Matt<p>Focus stacking is damn finnicky. This is a stack of 40 images out of my R6, and it mostly worked out ok, except I managed to miss one focal plane slice on the top bug, meaning it's a tiny bit blurry, and it is killing me to look at.</p><p>These hawthorn shieldbugs are absolutely *everywhere* on my cotoneaster. Every nymph stage represented somewhere, groups on all the leaves and berries.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MacroPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacroPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/macro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/shieldbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shieldbugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/stinkbugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stinkbugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a></p>