Thanks Mark! Other than Whitefish Point for birding, this was the first time I've spent an appreciable time on Lake Superior shore and vicinity. Nice country. I had a real struggle with the blueberries, but I did leave them behind for another to shoot, and then found my snack from a less photogenic bush a few feet away. I'm working, and re-working, my way through the week's shots including some more focus stacking trials. I'll post a revised collection later this week.
stan On Aug 13, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Mark C wrote: > Nice shots - the blueberries look great and I love the dragonfly on the > coneflower. Interesting use of stack focus for the truck cab, landscapes and > beach scenes. I had not thought of using it for landscapes but that would be > interesting - no more stopping down for DOF, no more diffraction compromised > images! Come fall, I may actually use up all that Porta 160 120 film I have > in the freezer... > > I was at the other end of the great lakes last week - spent a few days in > Chicago, one just hanging around the lakefront. Not the same as those nice > empty Lake Superior beaches. Shot 14 rolls of Tri-X, just starting to look at > the results now, a week later. > > Mark > > On 8/12/2013 10:34 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> Last month Mark C. shared his first experiments with focus stacking, using >> dragonflies as his subjects: >> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/blog6.php/2013/07/06/stack-focusing-dragonflies-in-the-field >> >> So I was in a photo workshop this last week, the instructor kept encouraging >> us to try focus stacking. I tend to be skeptical of "manipulation" >> techniques (e.g., HDR) but given Mark's results, I did shoot several series >> of images with focus stacking in mind. On arriving back home I >> purchased/downloaded Helicon Focus to process the images and see what I had >> captured. When I get time I will work on my other insect shots and re-do >> these two - at first glance they seem to have potential. Below is a link to >> the first quick attempts. Being a contrarian, I did not restrict myself to >> macros of insects for the experiments, and I think that the truck cab >> interior is the best of the bunch. With the beach shots, the variation in >> wave pattern from shot to shot caused some funny looking patterns when the >> images were merged, so I did not use all of the images I had in those series. >> >> Note that the original RAW images were "dumped" into Helicon as they came >> out of the camera - no color balancing, sharpening, etc. (There is a >> Lightroom plug-in that makes this process quite simple.) The images shown >> here are as they emerged from Helicon - I have not yet done any additional >> work on color-balance, etc. with the merged images. All of these shot on a >> tripod, all with natural light. >> >> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p684646393 >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> stan > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
