THEME - Murex

[Mitch Carucci]

Apple Murex (I think)

Focus stack. Background run through Simplify.

[Paul Lagasi]

Nice image, Mitch love the shell....

[gary ellwein]

Lovely detail and color in the shell. I'm not sure about the hard lighting and strong shadows.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Nice close up view of a lovely shell, Mitch. I like the simplified background

[Nancy Bell]

Great shell! Not sure about the composition with the shell horizontal and the bkgd so strongly diagonal. I might experiment with tipping the shell in the direction of the diagonals, since the shell has a strong tip to tail that makes an obvious line of direction. Those internal spirals and colors add an interesting visual flow in another direction. So for me I see too many strong visual directions with this presentation.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Great detail, and luminosity on the shell. Could you share your technique and program that you used to put it together. I like the composition, but might try to minimize the triangular shape on the URC.

[Mitch Carucci]

Jackie,

I am still a novice at focus stacking. I started with Elements XXL (an add on to photoshop Elements - I still use elements and have not graduated to the Full Photoshop). I had enough luck with that that I wanted something better, so I now am using Zerene stacker. Very easy to use with a good editing function.