Post your Fruit
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blackstar
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Blue439
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I went to the market one day and bought the most unusual (for me) fruit to make a crazy still life composition with some crazy lighting... The non-fruit background elements I wanted to be really out of focus so that viewers could hardly understand what they are, yet all the fruit in the foreground had to be fully in focus. To achieve that, I used the nifty fifty at a relatively wide aperture (ƒ/2.8) and stacked focus all the way up to the point where I thought sharpness should stop. Because the lens was open quite wide all the time, DOF was shallow and sharpness fell abruptly.
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, stacked focus.
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, stacked focus.
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Blue439
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Raspberry tart with pistachio crumbs. Yummy as Hell! 
Composite shot made up of 10 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the Z7. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.
Composite shot made up of 10 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the Z7. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.
blackstar
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Did you intensively focus-stack only the front half of the tart? why?Raspberry tart with pistachio crumbs. Yummy as Hell!
Composite shot made up of 10 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the Z7. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.
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Blue439
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It is a purely “artistic” (if I daresay
) choice on my part. I wanted the first few rows to be sharp, so that viewers would get a good idea of what the tart looked like, yet I also wanted it to blur away slowly into the background, which I meant to keep super-soft, so that the limit between background and backdrop (or the point where the black paper curved up) would be indistinguishable. I could of course have gone on stacking until I reached the end of the tart but then the curving up point of the paper would have been very difficult to hide (or I would have needed a much longer table!), and I felt it looked better that way.
Blue439
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A simple high-key attempt at a bowl of oranges. I took a shot at them with a nifty fifty (easy!) before my wife painted them using watercolors (much more difficult!). The bowl is some artsy-fartsy Japanese thing which I’m not even allowed to wash in the sink! My wife was eyeing me suspiciously all the time I was using it as a prop.
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo GR3543XLS tripod, Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.
Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo GR3543XLS tripod, Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.
Peter7100
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You certainly won't need to buy any apples in the stores
