Does this work?

Lord Vetinari

Pic of orchid focus stacked from 3 pics taken at low DOF so only few areas are actually in focus (orchid is on a windowsill so back lit slightly).
Appreciate any views on whether the pic works.

gluwater

It's interesting. Kinda looks like if you've had a couple too many . I'm guessing the "blur" around some of the petals is remanents of the focus stacking? It almost appears you took this shot through slightly frosted glass. I kinda like it, it definitely gives a cool effect.

Nick

burke

it's cool, and some great vibrant color!
but there is quite a bit of ghosting around the petals.. is this from the layering? or is it camera shake? or??

Lord Vetinari

gluwater wrote:

It's interesting. Kinda looks like if you've had a couple too many . I'm guessing the "blur" around some of the petals is remanents of the focus stacking? It almost appears you took this shot through slightly frosted glass. I kinda like it, it definitely gives a cool effect.
Nick

Thanks Nick-
No drinking involved unless it ws still around from the previous night . You are correct about the halo, think the stacking prog considered that to be background because it was so OOf.

burke wrote:

it's cool, and some great vibrant color!
but there is quite a bit of ghosting around the petals.. is this from the layering? or is it camera shake? or??

Thanks Burke,
The ghosting is from the focus stacking, I wanted to see how it looked when I knew the stack would not completely work becausethe DOF was so thin on each shot, so there are multiple thin "slices" in focus (three) and the rest is OOF.

pathfinder

The color is vibrant. The multiple imagery might work in the right context, but generally I do not favor it here. Maybe as a cover for an acid-rock albumn it might workD

The sharply focused area is dead center also, and does not seem ideal to me either.

Lord Vetinari

Redo of flower properly stacked
Thanks Pathfinder for the comments!

Decided to retake the same flower, this time properly focus stacked with 4 images taken at F11 using a tripod. The stack worked very well.

pathfinder

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Pathfinder for the comments!

Decided to retake the same flower, this time properly focus stacked with 4 images taken at F11 using a tripod. The stack worked very well.

That's sweet. Much better than the first round. Very nice indeed!!

adrian_k

pathfinder wrote:

That's sweet. Much better than the first round. Very nice indeed!!

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