AirHaake
Twilight Balsamroot
A bit of a tonal contrast from the sunburst one. Which one do you prefer?
On the technical side, this is an image that I'm rarely able to make. The closest flower is mere inches from the front of my lens, meaning I need to do a "focus stack", or combine multiple images taken at different focus points in order to get sharp focus through the entire image. This was a 5 frame focus stack.
The difficulty usually arises when there is any movement in the scene. Even the slightest breeze will cause the flowers to sway and makes combining the frames a huge challenge. Additionally, the light was so low here that each exposure was over a second long which would have made it impossible to get a sharp image if there was any movement in the flowers at all.
Thankfully it was completely calm this evening which allowed me to get this shot.
Twilight Balsamroot
A bit of a tonal contrast from the sunburst one. Which one do you prefer?
On the technical side, this is an image that I'm rarely able to make. The closest flower is mere inches from the front of my lens, meaning I need to do a "focus stack", or combine multiple images taken at different focus points in order to get sharp focus through the entire image. This was a 5 frame focus stack.
The difficulty usually arises when there is any movement in the scene. Even the slightest breeze will cause the flowers to sway and makes combining the frames a huge challenge. Additionally, the light was so low here that each exposure was over a second long which would have made it impossible to get a sharp image if there was any movement in the flowers at all.
Thankfully it was completely calm this evening which allowed me to get this shot.