That's a lot of work for a picture of a flower... ;) Norm Digital Image Studio wrote: > I have plenty of time so I might as well preface the pic with a story: > > I was mucking about in the back-yard today shooting my little captive > model and I noticed an interesting little flower in the lawn (yes it's > a flower shot so stop reading now if you suffer from anthophobia ;-). > So I thought, I might take a few shots before I chop it up into mulch > with the lawn mower. > > Thankfully I was shooting with my *ist D (it still gets a lot of work) > fitted with my A50/2.8 macro (subject didn't seem worth changing > lenses or cracking out a tripod for), so I laid down on the grass and > took a few hand held shots at 1:2 mag. Since it was in the shade I > dialed up the shade WB setting, ISO 400 and Av at f5.6, this left me > at 1/40s so I got a few shots in between wind gusts. > > The aperture/shutter speed was a bit of a compromise, I had just > enough shutter speed to get a sharp shot but the DOF was just a bit > narrow. PP to the rescue, I found two shots with sufficiently > differing planes of focus to give me a decent overall effective DOF > and I set about combining the images. > > I used my pano package Hugin to align, scale and re-render the two > converted RAW images (applied my custom calibration but no WB change). > I then placed one image on the other as a layer and used a feathered > erase tool to reveal the sharp areas of the image underneath. I then > merged the images and applied curves and sharpening etc to the > composite. > > The process may sound a little convoluted but for me it's pretty quick > as I know the Hugin package quite well however the big advantage of > the process is the ability to isolate the subject whilst maintaining > sufficient DOF at the subject plane. Granted it's been pretty heavily > manipulated but I'll leave you to decide whether the technique works > or not. > > Little weenie size pic: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO/photo#5091108463691284690 > > Bigger temporary pic (1.5MB): > > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~aglcnews/temp/IMGP21389-IMGP21392.jpg > > Compliments and criticisms welcome. > > Cheers, > >
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