Viburnum and snoot
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Viburnum and snoot
Well, I'm sure everyone knows what a viburnum is
This is manually stacked from 25 images.
35mm macro appx. 1:2
f11
1/80 sec
Larger version here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/ ... 21937s.jpg
And here's the snoot:
There hasn't been much daylight for shooting lately and this is an attempt to get more light for macros. It just black foam board lined with aluminum foil and a piece of milk bottle plastic for a difuser. It fits snugly over the pop-up flash and is held in place with a rubber band.
This is manually stacked from 25 images.
35mm macro appx. 1:2
f11
1/80 sec
Larger version here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/ ... 21937s.jpg
And here's the snoot:
There hasn't been much daylight for shooting lately and this is an attempt to get more light for macros. It just black foam board lined with aluminum foil and a piece of milk bottle plastic for a difuser. It fits snugly over the pop-up flash and is held in place with a rubber band.
Lovely shot - I'm very familair with the flower- our next door neighbour has one right next to our fence and it keeps the few winter insects about fuelled up.
Like the DIY flash director/diffuser
Brian V.
Like the DIY flash director/diffuser
Brian V.
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Ahh! I know some magic that may help with that problem.
The standard CombineZM "Do Stack" macro has some added sharpening built in. If your images are sharp to begin with, the addition can be too much.
It's easy to get rid of. Just Macro | Edit -> Macros, click on Do Stack, click to select the line that says "Create a Highpass Filter", then click the Delete button 5 times. Click OK/Update, close the Edit Macros window, and you're good to go with no added sharpening or contrast adjustment.
I normally get rid of Balance Colour and Brightness too. If your lighting is uniform from frame to frame you don't need that command, and once in a while it'll actually throw things off a bit.
--Rik
The standard CombineZM "Do Stack" macro has some added sharpening built in. If your images are sharp to begin with, the addition can be too much.
It's easy to get rid of. Just Macro | Edit -> Macros, click on Do Stack, click to select the line that says "Create a Highpass Filter", then click the Delete button 5 times. Click OK/Update, close the Edit Macros window, and you're good to go with no added sharpening or contrast adjustment.
I normally get rid of Balance Colour and Brightness too. If your lighting is uniform from frame to frame you don't need that command, and once in a while it'll actually throw things off a bit.
--Rik
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Either that or sharpen as postprocessing in Photoshop where you can see directly what you're getting....play with the settings to see if there's a happy medium...
CombineZM uses different math, but the results are very close to what you get from Photoshop's unsharp mask filter.
If you do a lot of the same thing, then tuning CombineZM will save some repetitive work; if you do a lot of different things, it's faster to tweak in Photoshop.
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Thanks for the nice Viburnum picture, Ed. And the flash snoot is interesting too, I wish I was more skilled in DIY.
Actually, this Viburnum is bringing back old memories to me as we had large bushes of those plants around the house where I once lived as a kid with my family. They were blossoming from late November to early April and the first bees in spring were very frequent visitors of the flowers.
BTW, if anyone is interested, I think the Viburnum is Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'. (At least these were the very similar, if not the same ones we had.)
And if one has access to a plant one can propagate it quite easily as tip layers or off-shoots.
Cheers,
Betty
Actually, this Viburnum is bringing back old memories to me as we had large bushes of those plants around the house where I once lived as a kid with my family. They were blossoming from late November to early April and the first bees in spring were very frequent visitors of the flowers.
BTW, if anyone is interested, I think the Viburnum is Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'. (At least these were the very similar, if not the same ones we had.)
And if one has access to a plant one can propagate it quite easily as tip layers or off-shoots.
Cheers,
Betty