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Autumn pattern

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted February 3, 201597 views7 comments

Found this nice little leaf last autumn in northern Norway. I'm slightly bothered by the three brown spots, but I don't want to clone them out, so I'll have to live with it.

Focus stack of twelve pictures. f/11 (effective aperture), 1/15, ISO 200, 100 mm macro lens.

C&C welcome, large version is included.

Roel

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on February 3, 2015 at 12:25 PM

This is really cool

The brown spots bother me also. You could crop just inside the spots and still have a great photo. You might try that and see what you think.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on February 3, 2015 at 1:03 PM

This is a wonderfully warm and gentle pattern, Roel, very nicely composed. The details throughout are great. While I could see this without the brown spots, they are very much part of nature's way and do help tell the story of dying leaves at the end of summer.

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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on February 3, 2015 at 1:16 PM

Marvelously rendered fractal pattern, and I also like the soft color palette. I agree about leaving the brown spots - that is what nature is all about (not just mathematically perfect fractals!)

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Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on February 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM

Sorry, I beg to differ. This pattern and the complementary colors are so perfect, that I'd clone out the spots - if this were mine. But, that'd just me. The imperpections are not unusual shapes or colors, which I might keep. they are to me a mar on a beautiful BG......"sigh"

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Comment posted by scott lanz on February 3, 2015 at 9:27 PM

Wow, Roel, the detail you achieved the stacking is terrific. Edge to edge sharpness. Nice work!

I have no strong opinion regarding the spots. Although I usually clone out blemishes in flowers, I could and probably would live with the spots in this leaf.

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on February 4, 2015 at 12:41 AM

Roel..this is beautiful....very well seen. I love the color palette in the frame. A very well balanced image. Could there have been one tad bit more contrast..

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on February 4, 2015 at 7:14 PM

Wonderful comp, detail, and colors! The brown spots don't bother me in this image because they blend in very well with the leaf, so they don't seem like a distraction to me.

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