6 images stacked with Zerene. Detail action applied before and after PB-Oil. Masked and blended with original. Noticed colors are more saturated here vs Lightroom view. YMMV
All C&C welcome.
Stacked Tiger Lily
6 images stacked with Zerene. Detail action applied before and after PB-Oil. Masked and blended with original. Noticed colors are more saturated here vs Lightroom view. YMMV
All C&C welcome.
Steve, Nice painterly BG and the details on the lily are great! I love the transparency of the front petals.
Steve, I love the PB-oil look to this and the lily is outstanding.
Great looking Tiger Lily, Steve, like soft light and the PB oil stylizes the detail on the petals very nicely. Also like the petal transparency, and nice opposing dark green BG to bring out the rich reds. I have no idea what stacking is, but looks like you did a fantastic job!
Thanks denise, Andrew and Brendan!
Brendan, Here is a quote from wiki:Originally Posted by Brendan Dozier
Great looking Tiger Lily, Steve, like soft light and the PB oil stylizes the detail on the petals very nicely. Also like the petal transparency, and nice opposing dark green BG to bring out the rich reds. I have no idea what stacking is, but looks like you did a fantastic job!
Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images.
I use a program called Zerene Stacker to combine the images, but you can do it "by hand" in Photoshop (with masks) or use a free program called CombineZM.
This technique allows you to use a smaller F stop (larger aperture) for natural lighting conditions and still get the entire subject in focus.
Steve, really like the deep focus you got by stacking. The red really stands out against the green and makes the lily pop nicely.
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Thanks for the info on focus stacking, Steve. Just read up on it a little more, and wow, I can see how handy this is for dof issues, and especially macro shots. Great stuff.
Nice image and application, Steve.
Like the colors and depth.
Only comment, while it is very nice as is, I might have added a slightly wider area on the left. But as they say ... Y I ... Y V!
Lovely image, Steve! The contrast between the sharp, bright red flower and the soft, green BG is very striking. Well done!
Thanks everyone! Appreciate your comments.
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