Alstroemeria anthers

paddler4

These are striking flowers but not easy (for me, anyway) to photograph. This particular shot shows that I still have some work to do with stacking. Still getting some artifacts that I can't get rid of.

Lord Vetinari

Stack looks pretty good. I nearly always have to do a bit of work in PS with a stacked pic.
Brian V.

paddler4

Brian,

Thanks. I'm curious what fixes you often have to do. I have had two common problems with stacks: noise-like irregularities and halos. A fairly aggressive treatment with noise ninja gets rid of most of the former. I am still not clear how to handle the latter. In this case, I just tried three different stacking procedures until I got one that was not too bad. I was thinking that playing with Zerene's parameter sand maybe its retouching brush would be helpful for this.

Dan