Craig Thompson
09-29-2009, 06:44 PM
I have a few more "Anemone" images I want to post, but with some of the comments concerning DOF for the last two I posted, ( ;) ) I thought I'd go with a change of pace image! One in which DOF (or preferences concerning lack of it,..) is not going to be an issue!! ;) :D
This is a composite from some images I've had sitting on my computer for over two years now. On this occasion I was shooting specifically to provide images for an extreme DOF composite, thinking I could pull it together myself in PS. Well, after quite a number of failures in my attempts to do just that, I gave up! These images have languished on my hard drive ever since!
I just recently acquired "Helicon Focus Pro" and have been playing with it a bit. This image is the resulting composite from my 1st test with this software! I gotta say,.. I really like it!!! (Hope you will too!)
I noticed this spruce cone in my yard and the way the early morning sun was "skimming" the cone and lighting up it's edges really caught my eye!!
I wanted to include a bit of the green color of the grass in the composition as I thought it complimented the glowing oranges and rich browns of the cone, but leaving the cone on the ground allowed the grass to enter slightly into the range of focus and created a "too busy" look to the edge of the composition.
So,.. I mounted the spruce cone on a light stand to raise it off the ground and keep the little bit of bg at the corners of the image from coming into focus, and shot multiple frames of the cone. I changed focus slightly for ea. image going from bottom to top!
Composite from 10-12 images- All shot with Nikon D200, 200mm f4 micro (MF), 1/90 sec. @ f5.6, Gitzo tripod.
Comments Welcome!
Craig
This is a composite from some images I've had sitting on my computer for over two years now. On this occasion I was shooting specifically to provide images for an extreme DOF composite, thinking I could pull it together myself in PS. Well, after quite a number of failures in my attempts to do just that, I gave up! These images have languished on my hard drive ever since!
I just recently acquired "Helicon Focus Pro" and have been playing with it a bit. This image is the resulting composite from my 1st test with this software! I gotta say,.. I really like it!!! (Hope you will too!)
I noticed this spruce cone in my yard and the way the early morning sun was "skimming" the cone and lighting up it's edges really caught my eye!!
I wanted to include a bit of the green color of the grass in the composition as I thought it complimented the glowing oranges and rich browns of the cone, but leaving the cone on the ground allowed the grass to enter slightly into the range of focus and created a "too busy" look to the edge of the composition.
So,.. I mounted the spruce cone on a light stand to raise it off the ground and keep the little bit of bg at the corners of the image from coming into focus, and shot multiple frames of the cone. I changed focus slightly for ea. image going from bottom to top!
Composite from 10-12 images- All shot with Nikon D200, 200mm f4 micro (MF), 1/90 sec. @ f5.6, Gitzo tripod.
Comments Welcome!
Craig