Focus stacking and macrophotography by @myskye. (6 photos)
Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the last days of warm autumn. As to us, we do a lot of work in garden just preparing everything for cold rainy days, cutting shrubs and weeds. Luckily due to nice warm weather and relatively plenty of rain the plants and trees are all looking great.
While fighting some weed and field flowers that are growing between the stones @myskye decided to get a picture of those tiny flowers. When you look with your eyes you can see only a little flower but as you might remember my hubby's new hobby that he is exploring currently is Focus stacking. So he decided to use the chance of the last flowers and took some. Currently he is ready with this little purple flower and showed me the finished work and I was so fascinated with the intensity of colour and the details of petals. It is like you have 3D glasses and can see all the details. I really love when @myskye works with Focus stacking and wanted to share his developing skill with you.
Often we see people posting macro photography which means close up photo and this is a photo, that sometimes people edit with Program to make lighter, darker or to do anything else, but this is only a shot.
The technique Focus Stacking its completely different, you need to do in some cases up to 2000 shots of the same objects that is every time changing the focus of the shot, concentrating on parts of the objects. Because of that you need a special tripod for camera and also a holder to keep your object still for the time of shooting. Once the shooting finished. Those 2 thousand photos will be uploaded and using a special software the person makes the perfect merge of all the parts that are sharp into one perfect photo.
That means it is not only one photo, but each of those photos was created from appr. 2000 single photos.
That is why it is of course, time consuming and only h the person with great patience and love to such work can at the end be rewarded with such beauty.
Now here are the gallery of the "Deep Purple" hope you like the the product of hard work of @myskye.
It is fantastic to see the pictures, the colors are absolutely beautiful
Yes, the colours become very intense once this method is used, especially using the black background lightens it up :)
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Thanks for the photos and the explanation on "Focus Stacking"!
This is interesting, very interesting - although the result does not match my (personally) preferred aesthetics.
In my view this is very helpful for documentary purposes (i.e. for teaching books and so on). But as "art" I for my part prefer those macro-close-ups which play with sharpness (depth of focus) to give me a smooth feeling and the thought of not having all at once - and that what I "have" embeddet in colours and shapes of the environment, not empty space.
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I can totally understand what you mean and indeed there are other methods that I really love too.That is why those people who do professionally photography can tern a simple photo into Artwork.
Thanks for re-answering!
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Wow! When I see the first photo, I can hardly believe my eyes!! Thanks for sharing details :) It's AMAZING!!!
That is an amazing technique to highlight the beauty of little nature, usually best when applied to tiny things and even little insects :)
My grandmother was growing such flowers in our garden, so meaningful to me.
Thank you Julia, I also love those simple field flowers more, they do not need any special care and actually attract more bees :)
The clarity and contrast is so well done, that it looks alien...maybe because I rarely look at a flower that closely…very cool photos!
Yes, that is the main aim to sharpen the details and create contrast background. This is like creating art too.
What a fantastically beautiful flower! Was he photographed at night, or did the program do that?)
Hi Valentina, the photos done during day, but we have placed a black background so that the colours of flower are more prominent :)
It turned out very great!
Excellent use of the macro camera. Each one of the images is beautiful.
Thank you for your nice comment and glad you like it :)
Wox! What wonderful result with this technique and the aesthetic sense of myskye of course.