Hoar Frost - C&C

Snowgirl

The fog was thick this morning but the temperature was well below freezing (-10C). Those are idea conditions for the creation of hoar frost - those gorgeous ice crystals that form on twigs and trees lending an eerie glow as the sun comes up. Considering the temperatures we had a few days ago (-30C or worse with windchill) I decided to take advantage of the balmy opportunity. :wink

Never let it be said that I give up so, armed with my MPE-65f/2.8 on the 1DMKIV and balanced on a monopod to minimize camera shake, I waded knee deep snow out to the bushes in my back yard. Here is what I found.

1. single twig


2. one of seven shot for a focus stack


3. the end result focus stack. There is quite a bit of ghosting and I haven't yet learned how to go back in and fix that. Playing with the trial version of Zyrene stacker.


Thoughts and suggestions gratefully accepted.

PappyRoot

I love it! Thank you for sharing.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely captures.
Re the stack you can retouch the stack within zerene using EDIT and then EDIT when finished. The cursor allows you to copy from a single frame selected on the LHS onto the stacked shot on the RHS.

Brian v.

Snowgirl

Thank you for taking the time to look and comment. LV, I'll have to play some more with the edit feature. Time to download the documentation, I think.

Zet

Beautiful!

GOLDENORFE

Congrats, well shot . Like all

Snowgirl

Thanks all. I love learning new things. I'm a life-long-learning addict!