A Water Glass for Sue

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted February 26, 2012590 views5 comments

A friend and I were discussing the merits of stacking images and thus, this photo was born.

I had just acquired a focusing rail so this was good practice for me.
There were 19 images shot at f/8, 1/13s, ISO 100. The lens used was a 105mm macro lens. The light was from a south-facing window covered with vertical blinds and those too became involved with the reflections on the glass.

The goal was to shoot just deep enough to pick up the spiral design wrapped around the glass.

Thanks for looking and leaving your comments and/or suggestions (for next time

).

Carol

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on February 26, 2012 at 7:12 PM

Hi Carol, great looking stack and a very nice high key image. I also like the front and back specular reflections from the blinds. My experience with stacking is that the limited resolution of the NPN web site allows stacks to hide a number of minor flaws. In this case, where you've got overlapping sharp regions on the spiral, I expect that there are small blurred regions around the front sharp area. This is a fundamental optical limitation that stacking cannot overcome and the question is at what image size/resolution will it be noticeable.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on February 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM

I like the color in this image, very subtle. Nice comp.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on February 27, 2012 at 3:48 PM

I don't unerstand how to do "stacking". Perhaps that's what makes this image so well detailed
in the glass all the way down to the cloth covering. Even the wrap-around lines in the glass are
very sharp. Well done, and thanks for commenting on my reccent bicycle posting.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on February 27, 2012 at 6:10 PM

Very well done, Carol. I am really liking the lines and light lines on the glass.

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Comment posted by Steve Balke on March 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM

A lovely combination of textures and reflections, Carol.

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