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[Diane_Miller]

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Description

Hanging out in a friend’s garden yesterday morning I had to capture the center of this Clematis.

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All comments welcome!

Technical Details

Focus stack of many. Intentionally limited it to soften the BG structures a little. Too much DOF was a bit too much. Nothing done in LR. Zerene Stacker, then in PS only some minor retouching of distractions in a petal. Cropped to about 50% of original pixels.

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[Dennis_Plank]

Beautiful look at the clematis center, Diane. I like the depth of field you chose.

[Bill_Fach]

Diane: We have a number of clematis in our garden (most have already bloomed) and I always think of a bad hair day when I shoot the centers. Good rendition of the color especially and an exceptionally good stack. Most excellent. >=))>

[Mike_Friel]

Beautiful capture of the center; I like how you show it at an angle too. Lovely shot, Diane.

[Diane_Miller]

Thanks, @Dennis_Plank, @Bill_Fach and @Mike_Friel! Clematis are among my favorite flowers and I love what I can capture these days with focus stacking!