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Love the shot, great texture and color. The "tutorial" of your technique was also fascinating and educational. I haven't ever thought about using focus stacking in my photography before, but now I think I'll have to try focus stacking myself someday.
First of all, thank you everyone for the compliments. Even when "home" I am on the road and out of coverage at least 3 days a week. So I am SORRY in advance for my grossly delayed responses! This year has me well over 200 days out...
Fred Miranda wrote:
Very unique shot Mark. I really like the final result.
Do you do your focal stacking in PS? I never really like the results. My favorite app is Zerene stacker. Have you tried it?
Fred
m.sommers00 wrote:
Forgot to ask, do you use Photoshop (which version) or another program to focus stack?
I have gotten nearly perfect results using Photoshop (now CC) over the years so I have never needed another program. My friends (Ryan D, Brain A...) who do a lot of flowers and such with movement tell me some of the other programs work better for that. I have yet to have an issue give me too much trouble, so I have yet to use anything else. I also have pretty good manual blending skills, so clean up is not too difficult.
Someone private messaged me with this comment: Your "Tree of Life" picture is very pretty, but the reflection in the water does not match the subject in places. Did you use a software to get the reflection, like "Flood", and clone it onto the bottom of the picture?
No. This is a single position low to the water, focus stacked. Two things might cause a little movement. The "auto alignment" before the "auto blend" always moves stuff a bit. Also, once in a while I may use some very careful "puppet warp" to do a slight straightening of something (but I use this extremely carefully because it softens - interpolates - the areas it effects) and I did do a small tweak here on this because the angle in which it was taken made the tree looked slightly tilted.
Again, thanks everyone for all the great feedback!
Mark,
One of the finest images I have ever seen! And FM has the best!!!
So unique, so sharp, so utterly well photographed!
Magnificient!!
Dan
And we all should be proud that you have shared these wonderful images with us. We would all like to be out as much as you I would think..I know I would if my results were close to being as good as yours.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Mark,
One of the finest images I have ever seen! And FM has the best!!!
So unique, so sharp, so utterly well photographed!
Magnificient!!
Dan
And we all should be proud that you have shared these wonderful images with us. We would all like to be out as much as you I would think..I know I would if my results were close to being as good as yours.
Wow, man thank you!!! I had no idea this won. I have been on the road a lot and out of coverage. A very gracious THANK YOU everyone. I'll try to keep up the pace!
Jeffrey wrote:
...I take it you really like to use f5.6 on that lens.
Yes, very much. The sharpest f/stop for the lens via my testing. In fact the sharpest for all the 2.8 Canon lenses I have tested.
