Friday Night Photos Flower Power Edition
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Sunny and mid 70's here today with much needed rain in the forecast for the next four days.
I picked up a couple of mixed flower bundles while I was at the grocery store the other day and played around with off camera flash and a little bit of focus stacking. Images 3 and 6 are both 5 frame stacks. Image 9 is a 50 frame stack. All three were shot with ambient light. The rest of the images are all single frame. For 2 and 8 I used ambient light and a small flash light as a spot light. The rest of the shots I used off camera flash for lighting. All images were shot in a light tent.
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Stacks I do not understand
your flower shots are very cool tho.
#7 seems to have an eye shining back at
your camera. Sublime. Haven't heard the song
in ages, mellow and almost latinist.
Thanks for the flowers! Brightens-up this
otherwise cold, gray winter day!
question everything
Hi, Q
Nice flower arrangement. Focus stacking is a way to increase the depth of field (the area that is in focus) on the subject without increasing the depth of field on the whole image. This is done by taking multiple shots of the subject at different focus points and then combining them together with focus stacking software.
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Thank you Social, for the clear explanation of stacking n/t
Hi Social
Thank you for the flowers and their arrangements. I especially enjoyed the last two arrangements and lighting.
Was the lily and the orange gerbera lit with a flashlight, or the camera flash?
Can you explain simply the qualities that 'stacking' presents?
Thanks a lot for the oldie but goody Malo, so cruisey and reminiscent of earlier times.
Hi, Janis
Yes, I used the flashlight for the lily and gerbera. For the lily I rolled up a sheet of white paper into a tube and placed at the end of the flashlight to channel the light into the center of the flower. As for the qualities that stacking presents, for closeup photography it can be used to help isolate a subject from the rest of the scene or for macro photography it can be used to bring everything into focus.
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What a great lesson teacher, thanks!
I will give some of your method a try!
Evening everyone
For anyone with a fear of spiders don't look.
I couldn't figure out why the live daddy longlegs was so focused, for so long, on attaching itself to the dead spider, or maybe it was the skeleton the spider itself had molted? In any case s/he wanted to be with it.
Enjoy the weekend all.
I find spiders to be fascinating critters
Their webs and behavior are amazing to behold. Ants with attitude.
Nice shots of this mysterious beast. One is entertaining me daily in
the kitchen. Kinda blondish and compact. Seems curious of humans.
(or at least me) Do you think they are really from Mars?
Thanks Janis!
蜘蛛
question everything
Hi Q
I too find them fascinating. They have been the only permanent resident here at home forever. I sometimes remove their webs, and occasionally scoop them up and put them outside. There are others that prefer to live outside and are equally fascinating.
I think they're too earthy to be from mars ; ).
That's a lot of webs
I'm like you, when I find them inside the house I scoop them up and put them back outside. There will be more for them to eat out there than in the house.
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Great shots, Janis
The light reflecting off the spider silk in the first one adds a great touch. I don't know the answer to your question. Maybe the spider is a slow eater.
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@janis b Hi Janis,
Hi Janis,
I prefer not to warn them, so as to maybe help thhem get over their unfounded fears.
Great spider pics! Hard to tell if a molted exoskeleton, or prey.
Greaet pics!
happy trails@
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi d!
That's one strategy, which a part of me subscribes to, but you never really know what is founded or unfounded, so I suppose I like to play it safe, which I also recognise is not always helpful ; ).
It's all a mystery.
Thanks for the images of the flowers as they enhanced my
desire for a speedy arrival of spring.
Hi, humphrey
Since spring and summer are my favorite time of year, I'm always ready for spring. Until then, I hope we do get some rain. We can really us it. There is rain in the forecast for the next 4 days. If we're lucky we may get whopping 3/4" of an inch.
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What a great capture
“Look Ma. No …..”
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Hi, snoopy
Looks cool, though I'm guessing it's probably photoshopped.
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I would also guess it was photoshopped n/t
Hi pixelators
Hi SD,
to Janis and SP... yes the background is photoshopped.
The man with his board in the air is real. He is Tahitian. The photo was taken during the Olympics this past year in Tahiti when he finished a winning ride, and bailed off teh wave. He struck this pose, holding his finger up in a #1 pose, board in air on leash next to him. OVER A WAVE. This looks like it has been cloudified or somesuch of background. The dude in the pose is real. I am sure the image is out there a bunch.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Cloudification, love it!
Thanks for the clarification dystopian.
Hi pixelators
Hi all, Hey SP!
Great flower shots man. Thanks the OT!
Got a better female Anna's Hummingbird pic showing the tongue...
There is a highlight along the edge of bill (going out from base). Where it goes all black is where the bill ends. The light color to the left of that is the tongue.
Still hoping for pics of the males here, only one has gorget color, and is ginchy.
happy trais all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi, dystopian
Great Anna's portrait. Always great when you can catch them with their tongue out. Hope you're able to get some shots of the male when his gorgets are lit up.
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Cool that you captured the tongue of the hummingbird
Everything about a hummingbird is so fast it's almost dizzying in a good way to watch.