Recent plant/flower stacks

I have been playing around with the trial version of Zerene Stacker. What a fantastic program. I tried some of these stacks with CombineZP, and they came out full of problems.

Flower from a recent store trip:

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love that 2nd one, really beautiful

Thanks, Rick.

Wonderful stacks- esp like #2
Brian v.

Those are some really clean stacks! Only nit pick is the lighting on #2 is rather flat. Aside from that, well done

Excellent work!

love number 2

Thanks for the comments, folks.

Wallpap3r, I tend to agree with your comment regarding #2. I had two other series with more directional/high-contrast light, but the composition was much worse in terms of petal direction/color. I decided to bite the bullet and go with the less-interesting lighting to hang onto the better composition. Had I been paying more attention at the time, I would have preferred to have both, but as with all my photos, it isn't until it's far too late that I realize what I could have done better

You nailed #2.

Does Zerene Stacker achieve these results straight off, or do you have to do some manual tweaking to clean them up at all?

Thanks, Russ.

Madweasel, I had to do some manual corrections in photos 3 and 4, but I did none for the others. The corrections went very quickly, though, because I watched the tutorial video on Zerene's website about how to fly through corrections with minimal time investment. It's worth watching if you have the software. Had I not watched it, my workflow would have been much slower.

there all good, but #2

Lovely shots