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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823023" data-attributes="member: 53455">Two last flower photos from me for the time being. The first one below, the yellow rose, is interesting as it was one of my first attempts at shooting and processing a very large stack, in this case no less than 50 exposures, shot using the focus-stacking function built into the D850. Like my wife said, “It’s the camera doing all the work by itself, and you sitting back and watching!” —which was of course totally unfair, as I’d had to employ considerable quantities of my gray matter to program the thing!Fifty exposures were definitely needed to have most, if not all, of the flower in focus, and the processing in Helicon Focus took quite some time as well. I should probably have taken a dozen or so more exposures, as the back of the flower is not fully sharp, but I figured that, for a “proof of concept” photograph, 50 were enough.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Nikon D850, Micro-Nikkor 60mm, ƒ/2.8 D, Fotodiox Pro 35–mm extension tube. Likely reproduction ratio around 2:1. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.[ATTACH=full]409051[/ATTACH]Just a humble garden flower shot with off-camera flash on a windy day —perfectly sharp! The EXIF will tell you that the shutter speed was 1/60 second, but in reality the duration of the flash burst was probably something like 1/10,000 second or even less, and as the light from the flash was the only one lighting the scene, that was the actual duration of the exposure. Any movement of the tiny flower in the wind was effectively frozen by such a short duration.Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 S lens, handheld. Off-camera flash.[ATTACH=full]409052[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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