Frosty Lithodora

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Description

We’ve been getting freezing fog in the mornings the last few days and I’ve been playing with the focus bracketing feature in my Sony A7Rv to see what settings work. I did 75-image stacks yesterday of several subjects including bubbles in the birdbaths and one of my wife’s Lithodora plants. I didn’t consider either the plant or the bubble images particularly interesting, but I did process the Lithodora, cropping and rotating to get what I considered the best out of it. Then it occurred to me to mix it with a bubble layer to see what would happen. I first converted the bubbles to B&W.

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Technical Details

Sony A7Rv, FE 70-200 F/4 semi-macro, tripod and cable release, both base images are 75 image stacks processed in Helicon Focus with further processing in LR & PS CC. Cropped arbitrarily to 4641x513, largely to avoid some non-green spaces in the Lithodora. Images combined with the B&W bubble layer on the bottom and the Lithodora on the top using the Screen blending mode. Some final color adjustments and highlight reduction in LR.

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How interesting Dennis. You did a lot of work but I think it paid off. I really like the bubbles. I see two images here. The top half has the bigger bubbles and the bottom with the lines of water bubbles. I think the top half with the bigger bubbles is the part I like the most. If it were mine, I’d cut this in half and enlarge both. I like it a lot.
THANKS

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I just saw this, Dennis. It’s very intriguing. It’s interesting how the bottom is dominated by lines while the top has lots of circular shapes. Well done.

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Thanks, Don. That’s an artifact of the way bubbles form in the bird bath.

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This is soooooooo Cool. I absolutely love this image. Super creative and what an outcome. You have to see this one large. When you do, it’s a mind bender in the greatest of ways. This is so good I couldn’t/wouldn’t suggest any processing changes. I love it as is.

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Thank you @David_Haynes. That’s good to hear!

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I’m with Dave - captivating in the larger image!
The little bubbles, then the lines, are just unique and engrossing.
Great work!