Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject…
- Thomas Mann.
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In my balcony garden, I have had great success with a plant commonly known as the African Daisy or osteospermum. They come in a variety of colors and shapes and the one I have is the more common purple colored flowering plant that I picked up from our local garden shop. Being in LA the plant displays its very vivid flowers throughout the year and requires very little watering. Over the years I have noticed that the flowers of the plant are very reactive to the sun and in the winter months will only go full blossom while the sun is shining on them. I also noticed that if it rains for a couple of days at a stretch the flowers tend to change their color to a burnt orange color tone before wilting away. The gradation of these two colors on the flower is often spectacular but as you can imagine this is quite a rare occurrence in LA.
So, when it rained for almost a whole week, I had hope and my African Daisy delivered. I also decided to check the usage of a new gadget I acquired quite cheaply called the macro slider. This image is a stacked focus image of over 15 images that were stacked using Helicon Focus software. It was a painful process and I learned how methodical you must be to take a stacked macro shot of such a small subject. I am really happy about the way this turned out and by the final image. I’d love to take more images like this using the focus stacking technique.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject…
- Thomas Mann.
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In my balcony garden, I have had great success with a plant commonly known as the African Daisy or osteospermum. They come in a variety of colors and shapes and the one I have is the more common purple colored flowering plant that I picked up from our local garden shop. Being in LA the plant displays its very vivid flowers throughout the year and requires very little watering. Over the years I have noticed that the flowers of the plant are very reactive to the sun and in the winter months will only go full blossom while the sun is shining on them. I also noticed that if it rains for a couple of days at a stretch the flowers tend to change their color to a burnt orange color tone before wilting away. The gradation of these two colors on the flower is often spectacular but as you can imagine this is quite a rare occurrence in LA.
So, when it rained for almost a whole week, I had hope and my African Daisy delivered. I also decided to check the usage of a new gadget I acquired quite cheaply called the macro slider. This image is a stacked focus image of over 15 images that were stacked using Helicon Focus software. It was a painful process and I learned how methodical you must be to take a stacked macro shot of such a small subject. I am really happy about the way this turned out and by the final image. I’d love to take more images like this using the focus stacking technique.