Redbud

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Description

There is about a week when the redbuds have opening flowers with small leaves, and I always hope to find a composition or two. I’m usually most pleased with a stack and that demands getting out early before any breeze comes up. I got lucky with this one.

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All comments welcome! I’m curious if the limited DOF works for people. I love both the sharp detail of stacking and the sharp against soft look, and I feel I got a decent balance here.

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Minor global tonal tweaks in LR and a set into Zerene for stacking. The result went to PS for some Topaz Denoise and minor cloning and cropping.

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I love the depth you have achieved with this one Diane. This is drop dead beautiful. Great focus on the right places. Great fade to the back. Great colors. Beautiful. A wall hanger for sure.

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This is sweet, Diane. I like the composition a lot and the single flower in crisp focus with the rest fading to the back works very well. If you have the pixels (or took other shots), I could see a composition with just the three leaves in the lower left.

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Smooth as silk , Diane. in many ways I find redbud leaves even more attractive than the flowers, shown clearly here. A fine slice of stack!

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Diane: I love redbuds. We have a number of different varieties in our garden and I like to hunt comps like this as well. As an almost extinct single capture guy I also love selective focus and I also love how you can isolate separate elements with a stack. Overall this is a marvelous effort and a superbly crafted image. :+1: :+1: >=))>

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Thanks, @Mike_Friel and @Bill_Fach!

@Dennis_Plank, I think I have enough pixels for those leaves as a separate composition. I’ll give it a try. Interesting idea!