I wish I'd said that... Norm Baugher wrote: > 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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