Orchid stacked

ole doc

I have been trying to learn stacking for my orchid pictures. This orchid was about 8 cm in depth. I took an image about every 0.5cm using a focusing track on my D60 with a microNikkor 105mm lens in manual focus mode. Light was ambient and WB was corrected using a grey lens cover. I stacked 5 images from the set using CombineZM. I am pleased with it and except for an echo on the top most petal I think it is OK.
Nick
I guess I forgot how to download image from Flickr. Will try again later.
Nick
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cirillonb/4506867772/&quot; title="AngelHeartstacked410edited by cirillonb, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/4506867772_f7097d172a.jpg&quot; width="500" height="400" alt="AngelHeartstacked410edited" /></a>

It worked this time.

ole doc

ole doc wrote:

I have been trying to learn stacking for my orchid pictures. This orchid was about 8 cm in depth. I took an image about every 0.5cm using a focusing track on my D60 with a microNikkor 105mm lens in manual focus mode. Light was ambient and WB was corrected using a grey lens cover. I stacked 5 images from the set using CombineZM. I am pleased with it and except for an echo on the top most petal I think it is OK.
Nick
I guess I forgot how to download image from Flickr. Will try again later.
Nick


It worked this time.

maybe this will get it current again.
Nick

tomhooper

Nice shot. I see the echo, but its not really noticeable and doesn't detract from the shot. At least not for me.

Lord Vetinari

Looks very good esp for a first stack !

It's normal to have to do some cleaning up of the image after a stack.
Brian V.

GOLDENORFE

very nice, love the lighting.
stack looks good, the background looks a little patchy,
try using one of the original stack with a good background and use a layer mask to hide the blotches in the stacked image

phil