The star magnolias that I brought inside were opening just the way I liked them so I did some more focus stacking.
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@pflaume I actually spaced that I had left my ISO so high from the last pictures I'd been taking so this was taken at higher ISO than I would have liked. I had focus stacked 8 shots before I realized it. I don't think it's too noisy though, do you?
Lovely Jane. I didn't notice any great noise issue when viewed large so you got away with it. I've done exactly the same thing before and wasted one-off opportunities because I forgot to check the ISO. It's a real pain.
I love your focus stacking. I t could do with a bit more light on some of the dark stems.Some flowers seem to "float", detached from the main arrangement.
@ericdibosco lol! I actually took these both exposure bracketed and with 10 different focus points but got overwhelmed with editing. When I tried the HDR in photoshop they go to 32 bit and the the logistics of getting the color to stat right when I wanted to save them and then focus stacking! Then I tried doing the HDR in HDR EFEX but they came out too HDR y. So I decided to just fiddle with the exposure in the focus stacking and eventually got it as I liked except for the branches and was dodging and burning on them and the edges started to flare. I finally said " enough"
@jgpittenger :) True, it becomes a nightmare doing exposure bracketing and stacking together! I did focus stacking with some of my Tsitsikama pictures in December, trying to get deeper DOF with those rocks in the foreground and the mountain in the background, and also ended up with 3 pictures of different exposure! It was quite difficult to get the light more or less the same in all three before doing the stacking! The lesson for us?: keep it simple!
February 20th, 2014
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