After our exhausting hike yesterday, today we spent a little more time doing a driving tour on Roaring Fork Roadway with stops along the way. This was one of the most beautiful areas -- and after tonight's winds, we suspect it may not be there tomorrow. Daryl and Junko each photographed a specific tree from this scene. If you go to their photos, link below...and have nothing else to do with your time, see if you can figure out which tree they were photographing (one of them was standing to the far right shooting left, the other standing to my left). Time is flying!
For my mentor group -- yet another focus stacking attempt. It's incredible to me how focus stacking improves the overall focus.
Daryl's link:
Junko's link: http://365project.org/jyokota/challenges-and/2015-10-31
Gorgeous scenery, and it sounds like you guys were there at exactly the right time.....hard to imagine this area being barren in a few weeks!! FAV! BTW, I just read an article on macro focus stacking, and it made my head hurt!! They were explaining how to do that with a snowflake combining about 40-50 images, and said it would take 3-4 hours!!
How wonderful to see this just before it will all disappear! What a stunning view with all that mixture of autumn colours! Fav!
I am going to try focus stacking today - fingers crossed! I was taught that when taking a landscape you have to get the hyperfocal distance right ( roughly about one third into the shot) and then everything in front and behind that point will be in focus. That's why I thought focus stacking was just used in macro photography.
@pamknowler Once you do it, it's so easy! And what I've seen in the landscapes is that slightly upped clarity of every point in the image. That's why I liked it so much. I haven't seen something yet that I'd do in more closeup range but want to try that to. I lugged my 85 with me just for that purpose, but haven't used it.
Here you can see the pollution. That haze is not all smoke you see it there and along the mountains every day. My guess for the tree without reading any other or seeing their posts is that rusty read one surrounded by the yellowie ones.
This is a gorgeous scene, love the rolling hills in the background and the beautiful fall colors!
All this talk of focus stacking has peaked my interest, I will have to google it!
@radiogirl I've used LR and PS for this. It ends up being pretty easy -- the hard part is the focus setup for each photo, but once you get the hang of it, it's a fairly easy routine.
Wow Taffy, this is stunning, such wonderful colours, textures and shapes. Magic. I have still to try focus stacking, but will certainly give it a go in the near future, still trying to bring some order to the accumulation on my newly restored computer.
November 12th, 2015
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One more focus stacking - this is fun to do!
I am going to try focus stacking today - fingers crossed! I was taught that when taking a landscape you have to get the hyperfocal distance right ( roughly about one third into the shot) and then everything in front and behind that point will be in focus. That's why I thought focus stacking was just used in macro photography.
All this talk of focus stacking has peaked my interest, I will have to google it!