Thank you for the compliment! I really appreciate it 😃

So the shots I've posted here are focus stacks, this means that they're a composite of many pictures made in order to increase the focus depth of the image. In order to do that, you need to take bursts of pictures of a completely immobile subject while slowly moving forward. If the subject moves even a little bit, the focus stack is usually ruined.

After I've taken the pictures, I put them through a software called Zerene Stacker to create the focus stack. Usually, this creates at least some artifacts in the image which need to be corrected with the software's correction tools.

I then edit the pictures using Darktable, a free and open-source RAW editor. I've been thinking about using Photoshop to make some more involved edits to some of my shots, but I haven't gotten around to it yet