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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 19:10:17

Title: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 19:10:17

Nikon D810, Zeiss Otus 55mm APO lens, Zerene Stacker

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on September 02, 2015, 19:23:38

Technical excellence is guaranteed. You are getting the transitions from sharp to unsharp better all the time. However, if one looks really close, there are some inconsistencies regarding the plane of sharpness at it appears not to be "flat" but curves out and in a little.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 19:29:41

I get it. I am not much into finishing and should learn. I don't spend a lot of time on a photo once it is taken. The process of photographing, of "seeing" is what all of this is about to me, but I will try to spend more time on post. Thanks.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 19:35:27

The composition also works pretty well on the horizontal. Same data.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 02, 2015, 19:50:14

the plasticity of the forms is the result of serene stacker I guess. So the scene was wind still and you used a tripopd?

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 19:59:15

Quote from: Frank Fremerey on September 02, 2015, 19:50:14

the plasticity of the forms is the result of serene stacker I guess. So the scene was wind still and you used a tripopd?

I do use a tripod and a geared head (Swiss-Arca Cube C1). There was some wind, but not too much. I live in Michgan, surrounded by 21% of all the fresh water in the world and 84% of fresh water in North America. Michigan was scraped flat (no mountains) ages ago, so the wind has very little to dissuade it, which is a perennial problem.

Not sure what you mean by "plasticity of forms," which please explain.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 02, 2015, 22:50:47

I mean the 3D effect.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 02, 2015, 22:54:15

What you call the 3D effect is not the software, but the selective focusing when the layers are being shot. With a wide-open, fast lens, we can literally paint on focus where we want it and leave the remainder to go to bokeh.

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 02, 2015, 23:07:21

We have a new member. My friend Willem van den Hoed from Delft and Seoul.
He is painting with focus now for many years yet not in the macro domain more
in the architecture domain. Ourmaninkorea....

Title: Re: Green Tomatoes
Post by: ColinM on September 03, 2015, 17:47:55

There's a wonderful richness in these Michael.

I'm also trying to imagine the smell of them, and also what they taste like when ripe - I love these big ridged heirloom varieties