Inside Looking Out

This is one of the more difficult shots I have taken and processed.  The final image consists of 50 images taken in one of the many Redwood groves in coastal California.  I took a focus stack of 10 images at 5 exposure levels.  Each stack was then rendered with Helicon Focus and then the resulting 5 images were processed in three different ways in Photomatix.  The three resulting images from that were then combined in Photoshop.  But that wasn't the hardest part of taking this - the hardest part was finding a hollowed out Redwood tree trunk that I could get my gear inside, compose and shoot the image having to work the camera controls upside down and backwards from underneath...