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[Michael Erlewine]

Nikon D810, Voigtlander 125mm f/2.5 APO-Lanthar

[Bill Mellen]

Another beautiful image Michael!

[ArthurDent]

Really spectacular. Focus stacking?

[Michael Erlewine]

Really spectacular. Focus stacking?

Yes, stacked. Zerene Stacker

[Jakov Minić]

Michael, yet another wonderful image, thank you!

[Akira]

The image is beautiful as always, and I love the serene atmosphere, again, as always.

However, as admirer of your images, I would have to say that the way that the petals right behind the pistil are blurred would be a bit too abrupt?  The transition between the blurred petals and the petal wrapping around the stem of the bud doesn't look very natural or smooth, at least to me.

[armando_m]

A beautiful result

Whenever I have done focus stacking I have trouble with :
1. where to start - Ie: here the very tip of the flower pistil is not in focus
2. how much to move the focus point - if to shallow I get to many images, to wide I get lines of OOF in the middle of focused areas
3. how wide the aperture - this in conjunction with the above is a problem, if to wide the aperture the movements have to be much more precise, if I went to far, do I go back ? how much  ?
4. where to end is easier but is still a question to be answered

I have not attempted a focus stack in while

[Ann]

A beautiful image, Michael, and a great example of what some superb technical skill can achieve with Zerene.