Posted by David Taylor on April 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Before my wife died five years ago, I used to grow and breed auriculas.
When she passed away I lost interest in a lot of things, auricula breeding being one of them.
One of my favourites at the time was a double green which I thought had promise.
Neglected over the years I thought only one of my seedlings, sadly not the double green, had survived until I found this broken clay pot with a plant still in it -the double green - it had survived!.
I've re-created, on my living room table, as near as possible how it was when found.
Sigma SD14 dslr
Sigma 50mm Ex macro lens
Benbo Mk 2 Tripod
Novoflex MagicBall MB50 ballhead
F8
2.0sec
ISO 50
For each of 13 images
Natural light
Stacked using Helicon Focus Pro
Nice shot. Could do with a little more USM, but I like the lighting and colours. I hope this has reignited the spark for you to restart growing and breeding these.
Another great image demonstrating the stacking technique and how far it has come on from the early days when stacking was only usable with microscope images.... a bit of useless info here, I was a beta tester for Helicon when macro capability was being added....
I'm not sure here about the 'bluish' cast to parts of the image though.
Discussion
4 repliesWhen she passed away I lost interest in a lot of things, auricula breeding being one of them.
One of my favourites at the time was a double green which I thought had promise.
Neglected over the years I thought only one of my seedlings, sadly not the double green, had survived until I found this broken clay pot with a plant still in it -the double green - it had survived!.
I've re-created, on my living room table, as near as possible how it was when found.
Sigma SD14 dslr
Sigma 50mm Ex macro lens
Benbo Mk 2 Tripod
Novoflex MagicBall MB50 ballhead
F8
2.0sec
ISO 50
For each of 13 images
Natural light
Stacked using Helicon Focus Pro
Nice shot. Could do with a little more USM, but I like the lighting and colours. I hope this has reignited the spark for you to restart growing and breeding these.
Best Wishes
Rob
A feeling I know all too well.....
Another great image demonstrating the stacking technique and how far it has come on from the early days when stacking was only usable with microscope images.... a bit of useless info here, I was a beta tester for Helicon when macro capability was being added....
I'm not sure here about the 'bluish' cast to parts of the image though.
John
Very, very nice image!