Euphorbia milli

Euphorbia millii, better known as the crown of thorns, blooms nearly nonstop throughout the year... summer and winter, inside or out. Because it is so consistently in flower, I take it for granted and seldom photograph it. Funny how those things work.

Normally I use raw files when focus stacking. I have not had the chance to pick up the recovered raw files from my crashed hard drive so I used the recovered jpegs. I was surprised at how well they stacked. I cropped the image to change its aspect ratio.

Hope you enjoy.

Irwin

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Hiya Irwin,

A beautiful shot of a lovely Flower, looks delicious enough to eat.

I should imagine that stacking those soft colours musta been quite hard with no real hard edges

Cheers for now
Mark

Lovely shot Irwin.

bandit 1 wrote in post #3634473
Hiya Irwin,

A beautiful shot of a lovely Flower, looks delicious enough to eat.

I should imagine that stacking those soft colours musta been quite hard with no real hard edges

Cheers for now
Mark

Hi Mark.

I'm glad you enjoyed and thanks for your compliment. Actually the stacking went relatively easily. There was a little "mush" but actually the initial composite was good. To get the finest textures though, I treated the composite generated by the program as a rough draft. I then viewed each individual constituent slice and compared it to the composite as well as the prior and successive images to see which has the sharpest focus. I then transfered the tack sharp areas to the composite. The hardest part was when a power surge reset my computer when I was in the last lap and forced a redo of all of my work. Using Helicon is not particularly hard once you get the hang of it though it is time consuming.

Then, I saved the image and removed any digital artifacts In Photoshop. I also applied some minor sharpening in lab mode, cropped and adjusted level and saturation.


I haven't yet played with the Combine software. When you stack in Combine, can you edit the composite by substituting information from the individual slice?

Take care.

Irwin

Thanks Greg for you kind compliment.

Irwin

Hiya Irwin,
Just sent you a short PM

Cheers for now
Mark

Cactuspic wrote in post #3635916
Hi Mark.

I'm glad you enjoyed and thanks for your compliment. Actually the stacking went relatively easily. There was a little "mush" but actually the initial composite was good. To get the finest textures though, I treated the composite generated by the program as a rough draft. I then viewed each individual constituent slice and compared it to the composite as well as the prior and successive images to see which has the sharpest focus. I then transfered the tack sharp areas to the composite. The hardest part was when a power surge reset my computer when I was in the last lap and forced a redo of all of my work. Using Helicon is not particularly hard once you get the hang of it though it is time consuming.

Then, I saved the image and removed any digital artifacts In Photoshop. I also applied some minor sharpening in lab mode, cropped and adjusted level and saturation.

I haven't yet played with the Combine software. When you stack in Combine, can you edit the composite by substituting information from the individual slice?

Take care.

Irwin