Painted Wildflowers

[Cheryl Slechta]

I believe these are gaillardias. They were growing wild at the student community garden at the University of Florida. I used focus stacking to get some depth and my one filter was Oil Paint.

[Judy Howle]

Very nice composition, love the flowers. Oil paint filter with your settings looks great for this image.

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Cheryl.

The painting filter worked good for this image.

[Paul Lagasi]

Very nice work, could you explain stacking??? Like the composition and colors, well done

[Nancy Bell]

You have captured the feel of a meadow lush and full of flowers! The stacking worked out great. I must try that. Much cheaper than a shift/tilt lens! Love the super-saturated colors.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Thanks for the comments. Paul, on a tripod, I take as many images as I need to cover the whole scene, starting at the very front, usually at f/8 or f/9, then I cheat and use the auto focus points since the 5DMkIII has 61 of them and move the focus point up each time until I'm at the very back of the image. Sometimes (and I did it on this one) I'll move over to the right or left and do the same thing. I think this was about 12 images. Then I bring them all into PS, go to Automate, Photomerge (I use auto) and it stacks them all on top of each other, analyzes them and puts them all together. And I agree - much cheaper than a shift/tilt.

[Kerry Perkins]

This is very pretty Cheryl. I like the colors and subdued exposure value. You got a real nice result from oil paint! The focus stacking worked well too.

[Diane Miller]

Very nice depth with the wide-angle look. Images without one strong center of interest are hard to do -- you did a great job here -- lots to look around at and enjoy.