Fuchsia study

A slightly more normal flower shot for me - a 10 shot focus stack
Brian V.

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OMG, teach me please! I'll pay for your flight to Australia!

Maybe not, but you know what I mean.

Beautiful shot as always.

Now thats delicious - do you know what kind it is ? ...

Hiya Brian,

An Excellent shot/stack, beautiful colours & Comp.

Now if it had a tongue sticking out of those ' lips ' you coulda had the Title ' The Rolling Stones No. 2 album ' from 1965

Ring any bells ?

Cheers for now
Mark

Superb texture to the shot Brian.

I was thinking the same as Mark that the one on the left looks like enormous sponge lips LOL

Linda

great shot and color Brian. if you got some time in the future can you give me a hand on using cmz.

Bill

Brian - this is what we like to see for flower photography. The dramatic lighting, the precise colors, the isolation, and being able to see something we don't normally see. Great job with the focus stacking, too.

I need to do more work with flowers...

LordV wrote in post #3739511
A slightly more normal flower shot for me - a 10 shot focus stack

Could you please explain the "Focus Stack"

water_boy wrote in post #3740614
Could you please explain the "Focus Stack"

Using a program like CombineZM (free btw) you take many photos with different focus points and the program puts them together so the whole subject (or the part you want in focus) is in focus. I've been playing with it for a few days and it is amazing. Never would have known about it had it not been for the people at POTN

Oh, here is the site:
http://www.hadleyweb.p​wp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZ​M/combinezm.htm

water_boy wrote in post #3740614
Could you please explain the "Focus Stack"

I just came across LordV's tutorial here:

http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​61316

troypiggo wrote in post #3741935
I just came across LordV's tutorial here:

http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​61316

Thank you for that

This may explain why I see some flower shots that are really sharp yet when I do it they are not quite the same.

Thanks for the comments all- much appreciated
I'm much happier doing bits of flowers than whole ones
See you have found the links to focus stacking tutorials using combinezm.
Mark- never was a fan of early stones records
Bill - pm me with the problem you are having.

Gordon- not certain but I think it's peppermint candlestick variety - something like that anyway- one of the tender doubles.

brian V.

LordV wrote in post #3742221
I'm much happier doing bits of flowers than whole ones

brian V.

Very nice Brian. Flower shots normally don't do to much for me but I really like this. The whole charm of macro photography is to show things that the naked eye cannot see, so go for the bits instead of the whole!

Maarten

Superb Brian.

You shouldn't have told us the flower id and simply waited to see if anyone would guess it...

I know I would have struggled.

Thanks for the kind comments Maarten and Bernie - much appreciated.

brian V.