Lantana camara + repost

[Phil_Hodgkins]

These are much like Spiderwort—good hedge flowers in a garden or a weed where you don’t want them. They need almost no maintenance, are happy and long blooming and the butterflies like them. These grew out of a pile of old bricks along the fence in our driveway, so they almost don’t need soil! I clipped a branch off for a studio shot. on the dining room table. This was lit overhead by ordinary tungsten room light and side-lit from natural light through one window, with a white poster-board background. A nine image focus stack.

What technical feedback would you like if any?

Stacking artifacts and lighting

What artistic feedback would you like if any?

Clipped leaves on the left side and the LLC.

Any pertinent technical details:

Camera Info: Nikon D750, tripod, remote release
Lens: Sigma VR 180mm f/2.8G
Focus Mode: AF-S
AF-Area Mode: Wide Area
VR: OFF
Aperture: f/9
Shutter Speed: 2.5s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100
75% of full frame, cropped from the top
PP in LR/PS CC 2019, Helicon Focus, Topaz Studio, TK sharpen for web @ 25%

You may only download this image to demonstrate post-processing techniques.

[Dennis_Plank]

Fantastic detail in the leaves and I love the lighting on them, Phil. I don’t mind the cut off leaves, but I do wish there were just a touch of room between the leaf on the right and the border of your frame. I don’t see any artifacts. Nice work.

[Bill_Fach]

Phil: Dennis took the words right out of my mouth. I think the point of the leaf on the right is enough of a positive element that I would give it some room rather than clip it by a crop. Superbly crafted image.>=))>

[Phil_Hodgkins]

WOC

[Jim_Zablotny]

Repost is perfect. Well done…Jim

[Dennis_Plank]

Nailed it, Phil.

[Bill_Fach]