Death Camas

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Description

These are starting to bloom in our prairie and the wind seemed calm when I was feeding birds this morning (started blowing by the time I got the camera gear). So I worked this and a couple of other subjects. There are a couple of lupine species that I want to get, but I’ll try them early tomorrow morning.

While the bulbs of this plant are poisonous, the plant in bloom or seed bears no real resemblance to Camas which was a staple of the northwest indigenous peoples.

Specific Feedback

This was a single shot-my attempted stacks didn’t pan out. I ended up blurring the background to subdue it (see technical description). Did my method work?

Technical Details

Sony A7Riv, Canon 180 mm f/3.5 macro lens, tripod, f/22, 1/60, iso 2000. Preprocessing in DxO PureRaw4, Processing in LR & PS CC. In PS I rotated the image slightly and replaced most of the corners missing with content aware fill. I selected the subject and put it on another layer, then duplicated the background layer and erased the subject on it and blurred it severely (field blur).
I brought the brightness of the subject up a bit, saved the image back to LR and then brought the highlights down to avoid clipping and exported to jpg. See layers below:

Death Camas Processing


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Dennis: Not sure you could have done any better with a stack. It’s great having various tools to produce a fine result. Beautiful flower superbly captured, processed and presented. >=))>