Fading lilac (thumbnail)

elf · Post by **elf** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:52 am

Before resizing to 800x700 this was 13500x11500, so it qualifies as a thumbnail

I think sometimes a flower that is past it's prime and disintegrating is more interesting than the 'perfect' flower.

The center blossom is a 3x3 focus stacked mosaic with each frame containing approximately 50 images. The blossom was 14mm wide so this was slightly over 2X. This section was shot with El-Nikkor 50mm at f/5.6. The surrounding images (80) were shot as a standard panorama at f/16.

Zerene Stacker was used for focus stacking and Microsoft ICE for compositing the final image.

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:37 am

Are you making all the adjustments by hand ? Must be hard to keep track but the results seem worth it (though this one is a bit dark ?) if you really need to print out such huge images.

Have you looked at Zoomify to show them on the web ? Or have we had this conversation before

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Andrew

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Fri May 22, 2009 2:13 am

In floral photography it is the norm to underexpose by about a third of a stop or so.

The black border works well.

Harold

elf · Post by **elf** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:21 am

AndrewC wrote:Are you making all the adjustments by hand ? Must be hard to keep track but the results seem worth it (though this one is a bit dark ?) if you really need to print out such huge images.

Have you looked at Zoomify to show them on the web ? Or have we had this conversation before ?

Andrew

I usually just use Live View to determine how much to rotate the camera vertically or horizontally. Since both rotations are geared, I can just repeat using the same amount. It's pretty easy to keep track.

ICE has two file formats for displaying large images, HDView and Deep Zoom. Deep Zoom has a smaller file size as it uses Silverlight. My online storage space is pretty full, so I need to delete something before I can add any more large images.

Harold Gough wrote:In floral photography it is the norm to underexpose by about a third of a stop or so.

The black border works well.

Harold

I would have needed more light on the background to lighten this up. The OOF part of the flower is actually quite far from the subject.