[OM] (OM) Flower study

[usher99]

CN sez

>  A tough nut to crack even if your focus point was spot on at about 
1/2
>way into the total DoF.  To double these DoF numbers you'd have to 
shoot
>at a marked f/22

I can see why  you consider it a very special NZ plant.  I do like it.  
It appears your version of things is nice and that you wanted to
have most (all) of it in sharp (or nearly so) focus.  The steps you 
have outlined to improve it seem reasonable.  The plane of focus is 
more in front
and the rear are just a touch oof but not enough to provide a  pleasant 
oof blush or just place the sharp areas in context.  They just want to 
be in sharp focus too.  Chuck had a similar conundrum with a crab apple 
branch.  He consulted Dr. Focus who recommended focus stacking.

http://www.chucknorcutt.com/focus_stack/index.htm

As you want a dark background  anyway would consider using a diffuse 
flash at moderate to smallish aperture to eliminate ghosting from any 
motion and decrease ambient (?sync speed of  the cam) and stack 5 to 10 
shots.   Chuck had one out of order that fouled up the "do stack" 
algorithm in CombineZ---till he figured out the problem.  All the other 
included algorithms don't require the frames to be in order.

I wonder if a touch of deconvolution with FM on the posterior blooms 
might just touch it up as is?

Just my 2 cents.  Thanks for posting it.

Stacking addicted, Mike



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