This and the next are my favorites
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Chuck Norcutt
On 5/23/2016 1:06 AM, Moose wrote:
Wednesday, we had occasion to be in Vallejo at 6pm. Driving up at that
time on a weekday, involves awful commute traffic - and - they are doing
roadwork. Looking around on the map, I found a park I'd never been to,
the Benicia State Recreation Area. so we left early encountered less
traffic slowdown than anticipated, and spent a couple of very pleasant
hours there. We went wandering in the Forrest Deaner Native Plant
Botanic Garden. It isn't much larger than its name, the peak flower
season is past there and we have a much larger native plant BG very
close to home. But with the different climate, they had nicer specimens
of some flora and some beautiful flowers.
I took the opportunity to try a bunch of hand held focus stacks using
the Nikon 5T C-U lens on PLeica 100-400 lens, and that's mostly what's
in this little gallery.
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Also a Northern Mockingbird displaying and a maple seed that looks like
a flying creature with eyes.
It was an interesting exercise. There was a breeze blowing, not steady,
so getting some subjects in the frame and in focus at the same time
wasn't always easy. But that's what I was trying out, how practical
casual focus stacking is in the field. the E-M5 II does have built-in
focus bracketing, as they call it, but I didn't think it would work with
the often, and unexpectedly, dancing subjects.
The two not so close images are only two shots each, but it makes a big
difference in the DoF. A couple of two shot only C-Us also came out
rather well. With such a long FL and close focus, the background is
nicely soft, with rather attractive bokeh, even at f11, so I only needed
a couple of shots for
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and this
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The vagaries of wind had hand holding at high magnifications led to some
oddities. I didn't get the shots focally spaced well for this one, so
there is something like a Plane of Unfocus part way back.
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Stacking Moose
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