This might been here already, but I did this picture again, from the scratch.
So, 12 photos, focus stacked. Exposure time for each photos was around four seconds.
I did this from three different stacks, because none of the programs (helicon focus) automatic stacks end up being perfect. In every one of them had blurry parts and weird colors here and there.
So, 12 photos stacked, three layers, from which I manually took the best parts etc etc. The end result is here:
Gorgeous! What is your focal length? I need to learn to do this (I have a Nikon Z8). If you can't use auto-stacking, how do you clean up the errors? Are you actually erasing parts of layers in Photoshop? Thx