Paul Iddon (www.pauliddon.co.uk)
Morning Dewdrops Landscape
There were some nice dewdrops around this morning, not least the ones on a small patch of mosses on the garden wall.
Using the Sigma 105 and all 3 extension tubes, this dewdrop landscape is about ½ inch from front to back, and I stacked 10 images across just the front half to keep the background as blurred as possible to promote the focus onto the dewdrops on the moss a third of the way into the scene. I overexposed it by 2 stops to help me retain as much detail in processing by pulling back the detail using levels afterwards.
Once the 10 were stacked (using CombineZP) I cloned out a small (though it looked huge) dead grass stalk and selectively blurred sections to hide the cloning with a bit of Gaussian blur, and finally ran a high pass filter to keep the bubbles of dew sharp, before using a minuscule amount of noise reduction to disguise the overall processing!
The result is a nice landscape that would in virtually everyone's eyes, go totally unnoticed, such is it's tiny size.
C&C as always appreciated.
Exif:
Camera Maker: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 105mm
Image Date: 2010-09-30 11:33:33 +0000
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: f/9.5
Exposure Time: 0.167 s (1/6)
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: +2.00 EV
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Manual
Flash Fired: No
Color Space: sRGB
Photographer: Paul Iddon
Copyright: www.pauliddon.co.uk
Modified by CombineZP
Paul.
Morning Dewdrops Landscape
There were some nice dewdrops around this morning, not least the ones on a small patch of mosses on the garden wall.
Using the Sigma 105 and all 3 extension tubes, this dewdrop landscape is about ½ inch from front to back, and I stacked 10 images across just the front half to keep the background as blurred as possible to promote the focus onto the dewdrops on the moss a third of the way into the scene. I overexposed it by 2 stops to help me retain as much detail in processing by pulling back the detail using levels afterwards.
Once the 10 were stacked (using CombineZP) I cloned out a small (though it looked huge) dead grass stalk and selectively blurred sections to hide the cloning with a bit of Gaussian blur, and finally ran a high pass filter to keep the bubbles of dew sharp, before using a minuscule amount of noise reduction to disguise the overall processing!
The result is a nice landscape that would in virtually everyone's eyes, go totally unnoticed, such is it's tiny size.
C&C as always appreciated.
Exif:
Camera Maker: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 105mm
Image Date: 2010-09-30 11:33:33 +0000
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: f/9.5
Exposure Time: 0.167 s (1/6)
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: +2.00 EV
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Manual
Flash Fired: No
Color Space: sRGB
Photographer: Paul Iddon
Copyright: www.pauliddon.co.uk
Modified by CombineZP
Paul.