Striped Marigold
by GlynM
A focus stack of 5 images in a, not fully successful, attempt to make the whole flower head leap out from a very soft background.
All images shot using a Pentax K-5 with the Samsung equivalent of the DFA100 Macro.
1/400sec, F4 & ISO800, tripod mounted with the flower stem anchored to a cane to prevent it moving around in today's very light breeze.
The focus stack was processed using CombineZP.
Glyn
All images shot using a Pentax K-5 with the Samsung equivalent of the DFA100 Macro.
1/400sec, F4 & ISO800, tripod mounted with the flower stem anchored to a cane to prevent it moving around in today's very light breeze.
The focus stack was processed using CombineZP.
Glyn
Uploaded26/09/2011 - 22:36
CategoryFlowers & plants
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Posted 27/09/2011 - 21:35
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I think you have made it leap out very successfully, striking colours and lovely background
Great simplicity is only won by an intense moment or by years of intelligent effort. T.S Eliot
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Posted 27/09/2011 - 21:46
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Many thanks everyone for all your comments.
I was captured by the quality of these flowers which have really only come into their own this late in the season.
I had four attempts at focus stacking but this is the only one that worked and even them I had to resort to PSE to remove a slight echo at the back edges of the subject. I think all the others were spoilt by a slight movement of the the subject between shots, probably caused by the slight breeze defeating my attempts to anchor the subject.
I wanted to get the yellow hints of more flowers in the soft background as I think it gives a feeling of context although I could have, perhaps, composed the shot a little better to have kept them separated from the foreground subject.
Glyn
I was captured by the quality of these flowers which have really only come into their own this late in the season.
I had four attempts at focus stacking but this is the only one that worked and even them I had to resort to PSE to remove a slight echo at the back edges of the subject. I think all the others were spoilt by a slight movement of the the subject between shots, probably caused by the slight breeze defeating my attempts to anchor the subject.
I wanted to get the yellow hints of more flowers in the soft background as I think it gives a feeling of context although I could have, perhaps, composed the shot a little better to have kept them separated from the foreground subject.
Glyn
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