Wow, you’ve really got to grips with photo/focus stacking. Marvellous. I’ve tried it without much success. I did use Affinity and a tripod, but still didn’t get anything like this.
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Wow, you’ve really got to grips with photo/focus stacking. Marvellous. I’ve tried it without much success. I did use Affinity and a tripod, but still didn’t get anything like this.
I actually think the first image is best.Another experiment. With CameraPixels, I did a 30-shot focus stack, this time waiting until the flowers were moving slightly in the breeze. Then I combined them in Affinity Photo, using New Stack instead of New Focus Merge and turning alignment off, hoping to get a sort of impressionist result. With a little fiddling in the layer stack options, I got this:
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Some more tweaks using other adjustments in Affinity Photo (including Median Blur), produced this:
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And finally I gave it a watercolor texture (in either iColorama or BeCasso -- don't remember which) and lightened it a bit more in Photos to get this (which I probably could have done solely in iColorama, but it was a learning experience):
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Nature does good work.I actually think the first image is best.
I like it!Another experiment. With CameraPixels, I did a 30-shot focus stack, this time waiting until the flowers were moving slightly in the breeze. Then I combined them in Affinity Photo, using New Stack instead of New Focus Merge and turning alignment off, hoping to get a sort of impressionist result. With a little fiddling in the layer stack options, I got this:
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Some more tweaks using other adjustments in Affinity Photo (including Median Blur), produced this:
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And finally I gave it a watercolor texture (in either iColorama or BeCasso -- don't remember which) and lightened it a bit more in Photos to get this (which I probably could have done solely in iColorama, but it was a learning experience):
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When the brain gets desperate enough...Enjoying these experiments, Ted. CV19 looks like it has some silver linings.
Nice colours, I prefer this version I think.
Me also. I think the red is a real plus, and (to me, at least) the texture on the covering of the ball doesn't look as good in b/w.Nice colours, I prefer this version I think.
Wow, that’s impressive. And look at its “tongue”.Never mind that thing I called a cactus flower above. This is a cactus flower:
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And the brave little cactus was only a couple of feet high!Wow, that’s impressive. And look at its “tongue”.
magic indeed
Totally love this. Would have this on my wall.