A pair of dew covered Dahlia's greet the new day with spectacular color. Another image from last weeks morning shoot. Another one of the 13 image stacks I did with a rail. A small crop of 10% was done for comp.
Larger version available, "Thank you for stopping!"
canon 7D
canon 100mm macro f2.8L
F/3.5 -0.67 1/60 ISO 100
tripod, rail, natural light, CS4,LR2, Helicon Focus-image processing, NIK's filter suite
Comments
16 commentspat
Bob
Mauro
The stacking just brings out the details of the two flowers. Superbly done.
Like Bill, I find the bg a little distracting. May be you could try to darken the green at the RUC and two blue spots at 2 and 4 o'clock of the small bloom.
Albert Darmo
Canada
lucy
"Thank you" for your comment and stopping to view the image. Very simply, stacking is the taking of more then one image, taking advantage of your cameras aperture setting and optimizing that settings Depth Of Field (DOF,) or area in focus. Additional images are taken, often moving the area (DOF) that is in focus in each additional shot, usually moving front to back, until say on a flower all parts from the closest to farthest petals have been shot. The images are then processed thru software that looks at the "in-focus" area of each image and then merges them into one image that should be sharp all over.
Another flora technique makes advantage on NO Stacking by shooting just one image and selectively setting the DOF to bring one part of the flower in focus, with the foreground and background petals out of focus for a different, often dreamy, look.
I hope the explanation helps, Craig
Nathan