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gregfountain wrote:
Hi Dave,
I think you have some nice shots here! I'm not completely clear why you chose focus stacking for most of these, with the exception of the lily close-up. None-the-less, I like #2 best as it has the best exposure on the white petals, but if you could clone out the spectral highlights on the glass vase, I think it would improve. I like composition of #1, but some of the petals have some blown highlights.....
I like the stargazers, but I think the compositions need some more thought. Was there any room in your crops to add more space above, and to the left, to give them more space and make them less centered?
Overall, I think you did a really nice job with these!
-Greg...Show more →
Hi Greg.
The main reason I used Z-stacks was DOF, otherwise I would have needed F22 or more for some of the images. The final image of the orchid was a single shot at F22, and if you look closely at the original you can see an overall softness due to diffraction. The orchid also had the shallowest depth, so stacking wasn't required. These were experimental images to try out focus stacking, and they came out better than I expected. Unfortunately some of the images are slightly blown out on the highlights, I should have caught that. Mea culpa.
…Dave
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