The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
The spring ephemeral wildflowers have finally started to bloom. This look at some Dutchman’s Breeches has been intentionally kept light, with limited contrast.
Specific Feedback
I want this to feel springlike, warm and joyful, so I’ve not pushed the contrast or saturation and kept the view bright.
Technical Details
R5, 180mm macro, 1/640 s, f/7.1 to keep the background soft, iso 800, tripod. A steady, light breeze made it important to insure no motion blur during each frame of the 24 shot stack.
Hi Mark,
I love the tiny fanciness of this! They are so delicate and small, and yet so full of curiosities. Like Kris, I think the different angles of the flower really adds to this. It’s whole drawer full of breeches!
ML
Mark: I’m with envy that you found some of these in the wild. I’ve never experienced them. Marvelous lighting especially and a terrific stack.>=))>
I’m curious regarding your captures. How fast does your camera acquire the frames? Do you take several sequences to make sure you get a set with no motion blur?
Bill, off hand, I’d estimate that under high shutter speed conditions like here, the frame rate is a few per second (not terribly fast…). Helicon can handle the subject shifting (there’s a setting in preferences) as long as the new portion of the subject is sharp and it overlaps with the adjacent frames, especially using the B (or depth map) method. I often take two to four sequences, watching the subject for how much it moves during the acquisition and occasionally, they all end up in the trash .
A lot of mine end up there as well! One other question; I’ve broken out my focusing rail to use with my new high mag macro lens. When creating a stack is there any advantage to changing the focus point of the lens vs keeping the focus point fixed and moving the camera incrementally. Would the image size differences from moving the camera affect the stacking adversely? >=))>
You’re right that moving the rig vs moving the focus gives slightly different image sizes. I don’t think that matters to the stacking algorithms, they find the smallest frame and add sharp areas to that frame. While it might be possible to “fool” the algorithm with a stack in random order, I’ve never tried that. I do see the change in frame size when I shoot a stack with my 100-500 zoom. It does not hold the frame size constant, so I have to clear a few pixels worth of “junk” around the edges when I use it for stacks.
with envy that you found some of these in the wild. I’ve never experienced them. Marvelous lighting especially and a terrific stack.>=))>
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