This past week I’ve struggled to identify the subject of a series to follow the Death Valley series. Then it hit me. This has been a particularly hard winter here in Southeastern Pennsylvania with 4 major snow storms , 3 of them with accumulations over 20″. So what better way to “escape” the cold and snow than to view images of beautiful wildflowers. For the next few weeks I will be posting some wildflower images from last year. And as a side benefit, with this year’s spring wildflower season being just around the corner, of getting me, and hopefully some readers of this blog, to start planning for this year’s run of spring wildflowers.
This a blend of three images with the focus at different places. This allows the DOF to be artificially extended in the composite image. I talked briefly about this technique in my post Digital Photography Cheats Physics — Pt 2. For this image I used the new CS4 feature, Auto-Blend Layers for stacked images, to do the blending. It did a pretty good job and it was certainly a lot faster than building the masks by hand.
It had rained earlier in the day and there was still water drop on many of the wildflowers. Spring Beauties are a very common wildflower but the addition of the water drops and seed pods make this one a little different. My one wish for this image is that I had moved just a bit to the left so that the stamen in the upper right didn’t merge with the edge of petal below it.
The meta data for this image:
D200 with 105 macro
1/25 sec @ f/8 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp +1/3
(It’s the same exposure for all three images, only the focus point for each image varied).
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