two shots of a hibiscus

paddler4

A hibiscus that nearly died when I brought it in a few months ago revived. Here are two shots of its only flower opening, one day apart. Both are 50D, EF-S 60mm. First is artificial light, 13 stacked images. Second is natural light, 14 images. Zerene DMap for both. C&C welcome, as always.

Lord Vetinari

Stacks worked well - not mad on #1 but like #2
Brian v.

paddler4

Brian,

Many thanks. I decided that as much as I love the texture of petals, the textures in the background of the second are distracting. So I restacked, using only the top 7 images, and then I used the retouching tool to paint more out of focus areas on the left from the top image to even out the right and left. here is the new one.

Dan

NurseLoaf

I like the redo better, I have found shooting Hibiscus to be particularly frustrating to get shots I am really proud of.

DeVil

I agree, the second one (new one) now looks great

paddler4

Thanks for the comments.