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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 757420" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>Been a busy week at work, so I didn't get a chance to take any flower pics earlier for the weekly challenge. But today, Saturday, I got a break so I gave it a shot. Of course the weather, which had been sunny and mild all week, turned overnight. I woke this morning to drizzle and cold, and no light. But around 11 o'clock the skies cleared a bit, and even though it wasn't Golden Hour light I thought I'd give it a shot.</p><p></p><p>I wanted to trek into the woods and see if anything had bloomed in an interesting setting, but it was pretty muddy and I worried for my non-weather sealed D5500. We have daffodils ringing the front of our house, and they're pretty. But they're also done to death. I nixed that idea.</p><p></p><p>Until I spotted some tiny little white flowers coming up a few feet in front of them. And I mean, these things are tiny. I wouldn't have noticed them if I weren't kneeling on the ground trying to see if it was worth shooting the daffodils anyway.</p><p></p><p>I thought it would be interesting to get my 40mm macro out and seeing if I could grab a pic of them with the daffs in the background. I tried hyperfocal distance focusing, but I couldn't really pull it off. So I decided first just to focus on some mid-point flowers with a shallow DOF, making them stand out in relief from the foreground and background (daffodils):</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]355139[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Then I tried isolating just a few of the little flowers, but to get the number in focus that I wanted I had to focus stack two shots. These were the two:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]355140[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]355141[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Merged and PP'd (including reducing some of the Dutch Tilt that didn't look as good as I thought it would):</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]355142[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I dunno. Neither of them really grab me, so I'll hold of on entering either until I see if tomorrow's weather is better. If not, or I just get lazy (which has been known to happen, believe it or not) I'll have to decide which of those two I should toss into the challenge. Decisions, decisions.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 757420, member: 46690"] Been a busy week at work, so I didn't get a chance to take any flower pics earlier for the weekly challenge. But today, Saturday, I got a break so I gave it a shot. Of course the weather, which had been sunny and mild all week, turned overnight. I woke this morning to drizzle and cold, and no light. But around 11 o'clock the skies cleared a bit, and even though it wasn't Golden Hour light I thought I'd give it a shot. I wanted to trek into the woods and see if anything had bloomed in an interesting setting, but it was pretty muddy and I worried for my non-weather sealed D5500. We have daffodils ringing the front of our house, and they're pretty. But they're also done to death. I nixed that idea. Until I spotted some tiny little white flowers coming up a few feet in front of them. And I mean, these things are tiny. I wouldn't have noticed them if I weren't kneeling on the ground trying to see if it was worth shooting the daffodils anyway. I thought it would be interesting to get my 40mm macro out and seeing if I could grab a pic of them with the daffs in the background. I tried hyperfocal distance focusing, but I couldn't really pull it off. So I decided first just to focus on some mid-point flowers with a shallow DOF, making them stand out in relief from the foreground and background (daffodils): [ATTACH=CONFIG]355139._xfImport[/ATTACH] Then I tried isolating just a few of the little flowers, but to get the number in focus that I wanted I had to focus stack two shots. These were the two: [ATTACH=CONFIG]355140._xfImport[/ATTACH] . [ATTACH=CONFIG]355141._xfImport[/ATTACH] Merged and PP'd (including reducing some of the Dutch Tilt that didn't look as good as I thought it would): [ATTACH=CONFIG]355142._xfImport[/ATTACH] I dunno. Neither of them really grab me, so I'll hold of on entering either until I see if tomorrow's weather is better. If not, or I just get lazy (which has been known to happen, believe it or not) I'll have to decide which of those two I should toss into the challenge. Decisions, decisions..... [/QUOTE]
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