p.6 #1 · Spring Flower type Shots welcome... please share lens choice
Hi Ernie...First of all...thank you very much. I am just getting stacking down? so i think!
I use photoshop with good results IF I am able to shot with zero wind!
Is their other programs out that do this a hair better? I ofter have to stamp out tiny blurr at the top of flower? not a big deal.
I just used Bayphoto for a Framed metal print I did with one of my flowers...gave a real nice 3D look! very happy.
I shoot with a 20mm tube, raw...adjust almost everything in ACR all shots selected...click done, they go back to bridge..then into cs5 to stack. Fix IF needed(almost always something needs something ) save as a jpeg.
I am learning to start with the front of the flower, focus as fast as I can to protect from movement!
p.6 #19 · Spring Flower type Shots welcome... please share lens choice
Terry - those are looking so good... do you intentionally chop off part of the flowers? I noticed you did that to both of these last two, so maybe it's by design? Just curious...
p.6 #20 · Spring Flower type Shots welcome... please share lens choice
Thanks, Ernie
Well with using tubes and stacking, very tricky(at least for me)! That is the entire image...I do a balance act in camera....sometimes size of bloom, how much I can get in photo with sharpness throughout the bloom?? all matters...I am learning! In otherwords...My Iris clumps are very close to a slope, facing east...not the best at times for the creamy oof backgrounds..because of that tubes work well. In other words...entire bloom petal to petal would require me to step back...that means with a tube, part of flower will suffer sharpness.
I keep moving tripod and camera around for best sharpness throughout bloom, and getting the better background colors?
The 5DIII works so well with this as the view in camera is 100 percent! really like that....
It is too fun that you brought this up...I have a few from tonight, will redo in the morning(if NO wind)..just because I cut off the wrong side of flower...the way the bloom leans seems to matter as well. I use the 135mm 2.0 prime...
If you look at the first photo, right above....the top is chopped...yet at the very edge of the bottom bloom, and left a tiny space on the right for balance?? That bloom is very large, and close to the slope! If you look close the inside of flower is soft.....I would have had to step back 4 inches or so, to get that bloom 100 percent in photo...and more of the bloom would be out of focus...
With that said, with the set of gear I am using(and learning) I think I am balancing a fine line!!!
If you have any tips for me...always open for ideas!
