Mata Ortiz Style
I purchased this tiny pottery piece during my trip out west; it is 1-3/4" in diameter across the top and the
small hole is just 1/4" wide. Mata Ortiz is a small village in Mexico which has revived an ancient
Mesoamerican tradition of hand-built pottery, often delicately painted with fine human-hair brushes.
I decided it would make a good subject to try out the focus stacking macro technique.
I used my 100mm f/2.8 (at f/11) at almost 1:1 reproduction, shooting 20 sequential images with varying focus,
then combined them all in Photoshop. Definitely has me interested in getting a focus rail, now...!
(Shooting this macro revealed a hairline crack I hadn't even noticed before! A photo of the full piece,
sitting on my lens cap for scale, is in the Discussion.)
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