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Gallery: FloraPosted September 22, 201142 views7 comments

Stiff Gentians (Gentianella quinquefolia) Lake in the Hills Fen

These gentian flowers are very tiny. Each bloom is about the size of my index fingernail.

This is a seven image stack at f/8 aligned and blended with PS CS 4. I altered the masks to get the maximum blur on the background.

Nikon D700; Nikkor 200mm; 1/500s -0.67; @f/8, ISO 200, tripod

Comments and criticisms always welcome.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM

Good stack and nice processing. the image feels a bit dark to me, but that's a subjective call.

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on September 22, 2011 at 11:56 AM

David, Shows up with the right brightness on my monitor. Great work with altering the masks to get that fine looking background on the right. I'd not have guessed this was stacked. I have seen these flowers so I can relate to these better.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on September 22, 2011 at 7:08 PM

Beautiful example of the effectiveness and utility of stacked images David. I like your processing very much as well as the image overall. I also find the mood of this appealing.

pat

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on September 22, 2011 at 8:18 PM

David:
Excellent stack and I like how the bg tends to support the fg nicely. Brightness is fine on my monitor.

Wish the intruding leaf from the left edge was blurred some or not so dark.

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Comment posted by scott lanz on September 23, 2011 at 7:39 AM

Very nice.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on September 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM

Wonderful color combination and I like the light, also. Well done.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on September 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM

Hi David

A fine composition with great color and detail, thanks to the excellent stack! The BG blur rounds out a fine presentation
Albert Darmo
Canada

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