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There are numerous Fuzzy-tongue Penstemons growing in our Montana yard. Isolating a single bloom is a challenge because they flower in racemes with closely spaced blooms pointing in all directions. I also enjoy their deep throats, which means that stacking is required to show the depth.
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This is a nearly life size look down the throat of this flower taken in the morning after it rained. I’ve cropped it to 4x5 to remove extra background from both sides of the frame.
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R5, 180mm Macro, 1/320 s, f/10, iso 800, tripod and 2 s timer (no camera movement due to ham handed shutter pushing…) A 60 shot stack.
I really love close up photos of flowers with water droplets on the petals. You’ve done a good job at focus stacking the flower, while keeping the background blurred. Just makes the flower itself stand out. I’m wondering if you are troubled by that streak of violet color in the top left corner of the background, and if you’ve thought about removing it.
Gorgeous stack with wonderful details, unique view, lovely BG! It does sound like a challenge to capture a close-up like this!
A 60 shot stack?..man that’s a lot film… 
Wonderful image, Mark. The stack detail is amazing throughout. The color is truly intense and I can say I’ve never seen a flower like this before…Excellent !
@Paul_Breitkreuz, stacking is definitely an advantage for digital photos, of course it’s at least partially inspired by the use of tilts and shifts to get extended dof in large format. I can only imagine the challenges of even a two shot composite with film.
Mark, interesting points you make here. I have on a few occasions merged LF images, but do many MF merges, panos, and even a few stacks. Thankfully after using PS for many years now I can work thru the challenges easier these days then years back I’d just take a pass on the “gluing” of images together… 
