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Macro - no stacking

Postby aim54x on Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:17 pm

Some macros snapped whilst roaming around Ku Ring Gai Nat Park. Without a flash, and using the 105VR hand held I felt severely limited with the amount DOF I could achieve.

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Macro - no stacking

Postby Geoff M on Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:23 pm

Looking good Cam. I like the second best for the simplicity, just a shame the main subject flower was not filing the frame a little more.
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Re: Macro - no stacking

Postby biggerry on Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:56 pm

I am with Geoff here, the second is nice, i would like to see it a bit lighter and if you are gonna crop it, i would crop it such that the flower is off centre, that however, is just a preference thing. That flower and composition is one that is suited to limited DOF.
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Re: Macro - no stacking

Postby Remorhaz on Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:31 pm

I want to like the first but not quite there for me. I actually like the third the best.
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Re: Macro - no stacking

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:57 am

Remorhaz wrote:I want to like the first but not quite there for me. I actually like the third the best.

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#1 I really would like a different DOF. Perhaps more or perhaps just have that bud in the centre in full focus
#2 would benefit from croppage. Perhaps a square format
#3 is my pick but I think it has been oversharpened to put "focus" in where it wasn't in the first place. That central open flower has a distinctly fuzzy outline caused, I think, by sharpening to the point of noise being brought out. Then a mask has been applied to cut the noise back, resulting in those fuzzy edges. I recognise it because I have a nasty habit of doing the same thing
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Re: Macro - no stacking

Postby aim54x on Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:39 am

Thanks guys!

Mr Darcy wrote:#3 is my pick but I think it has been oversharpened to put "focus" in where it wasn't in the first place. That central open flower has a distinctly fuzzy outline caused, I think, by sharpening to the point of noise being brought out. Then a mask has been applied to cut the noise back, resulting in those fuzzy edges. I recognise it because I have a nasty habit of doing the same thing


Actually that is pretty much straight out of camera (converted from NEF to JPG via CNX2), I wish I had spent the time doing what you have described, my D300 usually has its in camera sharpening slightly higher then normal so this is showing through in the conversion.
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