High there! I have been playing in the crayons again. Trying to work with emphasizing a pretty shallow DOF of field here. 5D MKII with 100mm macro and 20mm ext. tube.Using Magic Lantern to set slices for DOF. Cooked in Lightroom, Zerene Stacker and PS Elements. If you didn’t follow any of that just enjoy…
I took an iris bloom in for a little bench shooting this morning. They are such a complex flower. (click on images for larger view)
We have entered into another cold and snowy period here in Western Oregon. These conditions lead to me sitting or standing in front of the bench working on new ideas to shoot. Bring on the goose feathers and a liquid marble with lighting from below. This experiment will continue… (be sure to click on the image for the larger version)
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I brought this hydrangea bloom into the bench after looking at it for days after the hard freeze to see if I could pull a couple of shots out of it. Both images are very close to 1:1 macro. The black and white is 24 stacked frames and the color 42 frames. Developing was done in…
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The four images in this series are all from the same plant at different stages. All are stacked images using Magic Lantern and Zerene Stacker. There is also some HDR work involved in them. It will be the last of these for the year. On to other things. Clicking on the image will get you…
Version II of the Flash Bar. I think I am close to getting what I wanted out of it. There is still a lot of tweaking that can be done as far as color. This is a total on 119 images. 17 focus layers with 7 exposures in each. (click for large view)
A friend found a firmware enhancement for some of the Canon DSLR cameras including the 5D MK II that I use. Two of the features in it are HDR and stacking. There is the ability to combine both of them and the camera will shoot the frames needed. This old light meter is a combination of 24…