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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 834077" data-attributes="member: 50197">Here's another that I played around with the settings to get what I wanted. It was late afternoon, and the available light was fading. I was checking on the flowers and noticed a dragonfly hanging out on one of the flowers, so I ran grabbed my camera. The first shots had a very dark background and the insect was a bit overexposed. I really wanted to show the out of focus flowers in the background, so I adjusted my shutter speed down several stops until and still didn't get what I wanted. I ended up adjusting my ISO and aperture, and flash power to finally balance out the low background light with the foreground in flash. I was afraid to drop the SS too low to avoid ghost images. Here is the final result.&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]420095[/ATTACH]I like this one, which is a focus stack, but after I got done with it, I discovered PS didn't mask correctly and now I can't unsee that. [ATTACH=full]420097[/ATTACH]Just of info, here's one of the early shots before playing around with settings, unedited. Yes, there is enough detail in the background to bring it out, and come out with something close to the above shots, but I didn't want to take a chance on it not having enough detail to work with.[ATTACH=full]420098[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 834077, member: 50197"] Here's another that I played around with the settings to get what I wanted. It was late afternoon, and the available light was fading. I was checking on the flowers and noticed a dragonfly hanging out on one of the flowers, so I ran grabbed my camera. The first shots had a very dark background and the insect was a bit overexposed. I really wanted to show the out of focus flowers in the background, so I adjusted my shutter speed down several stops until and still didn't get what I wanted. I ended up adjusting my ISO and aperture, and flash power to finally balance out the low background light with the foreground in flash. I was afraid to drop the SS too low to avoid ghost images. Here is the final result. [ATTACH type="full"]420095[/ATTACH] I like this one, which is a focus stack, but after I got done with it, I discovered PS didn't mask correctly and now I can't unsee that. [ATTACH type="full"]420097[/ATTACH] Just of info, here's one of the early shots before playing around with settings, unedited. Yes, there is enough detail in the background to bring it out, and come out with something close to the above shots, but I didn't want to take a chance on it not having enough detail to work with. [ATTACH type="full"]420098[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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