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Self Portrait by Dean Chiang | Xyclopx
A Land Rover + my Evo = rental car. Figured I should put some miles on the car while I have it so I decided to drive up ~250mi to Fort Bragg. My friend took some pics about a year ago and it was really cool--a whole beach of glass pebbles in a rainbow of colors! So, when I finally got there I was super excited..... but alas, the whole frickin' beach was picked clean!!! All within a year. So sad. I guess too much word of the place got out and city wasn't smart enough to control access, and well... I guess the 5 or so businesses along the main street with "Glass Beach" in their name can close their doors now.
Anyway, woke up the next morning ~5am and decided to try for some macro stuff, since most of my sunset pics of the previous night were a bust without the special glamour of colored glass. Carefully walked around on the slippery rocks and found a place to pluck down my tripod, spread its legs all the way, and placed rocks underneath the feet to get it focused at 1:1 magnification. Set down my portable stool and got to work.
The anemone was constantly moving, and was in a different orientation in each frame, arms flailing around, so auto blending didn't work. I ended up manually blending a focus stack of 3 frames.
Hope you guys enjoy this Self Portrait. An enemy in me.
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