Flowers and bits.

Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
edited July 7, 2007 in Holy Macro
Some flower shots. It's been apalling weather here since Wimbledon started :).

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Some flower shots. It's been apalling weather here since Wimbledon started :).

    brian V.

    Stunning Brian, just stunning clap.gif
    What kind of flower is that very first shot ??? headscratch.gif
    What incredible colours.... are they real colours or did you change them on that first shot ??? Pink and Purple just soooooooooo go together nod.gif

    Ohhhhh one more thing.... are these focus stacked ??

    Excellent Series ..... Skippy
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Thanks Skippy :)
    #1 is a fuchsia, I did drop the colour temp a bit during RAW processing but that was to get back the colour I saw when taking the shots. They always come out too purple/red otherwise.
    Yes they are all focus stacks - I think a minimum of 6 shots each.
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    LV -

    I always love your bugs... and your water drops... but the first shot here is bowdown.gif for me. So! Unbelieveably! Beautiful!
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited July 3, 2007
    Stunning and otherworldly. The last three made me think the Triffids were here at last. :yikes

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  • pjb923pjb923 Registered Users Posts: 87 Big grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Amazing shots. The amount of detail you pull out of your focus stacked shots is just unbelievable.

    The first shot is my favorite, great texture.
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    I'm out of words about all your work. Fantastic! bowdown.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    Lovely flowers well photographed as always iloveyou.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited July 3, 2007
    Brian, I just gotta say that these are absolutely superb.

    The focus stacking has been used to great purpose here - lovely colors, crisp detail with great DOF.

    Absolutely first rate!!

    You DO have a book planned for these, don't you?

    If not, you should!!
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2007
    I can't believe my eyes when looking at your pics.

    "Focus stacks" huh? Is there a work-flow online that can support me in this?

    What can I say? Wow!

    Thanks for sharing,

    Dick.

    EDIT: Looking at you galleries, I figured that "CombineZM" is the answer.
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2007
    Thanks for the kind comments everyone- much appreciated.

    Funnily enough these are the only way I can do flower shots that I like. I'm pretty useless normally at doing whole flowers that look good :)

    Dick- I did a tutorial on focus stacking here
    http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=61316

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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2007
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
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    Dick- I did a tutorial on focus stacking here
    http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=61316

    Brian V.

    Thanks Brian! thumb.gif
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  • tleetlee Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2007
    Wow! These are awesome!! I am discovering the same thing--the more I do macro, the more detailed I want to be. And, the harder it is to take pictures of a full/complete anything.
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2007
    tlee wrote:
    Wow! These are awesome!! I am discovering the same thing--the more I do macro, the more detailed I want to be. And, the harder it is to take pictures of a full/complete anything.
    Thanks T :)
    Don't worry you'll grow out of it- I'm taking quite a few lower mag natural light shots now mwink.gif

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  • tleetlee Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2007
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Thanks T :)
    Don't worry you'll grow out of it- I'm taking quite a few lower mag natural light shots now mwink.gif

    Brian V.


    Thanks. I can sleep better now --Laughing.gif--rolleyes1.gif
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