Pale purple coneflowers

Posted by redbuffalo on Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:22 pm

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Pale purple coneflowers (Echinacea pallida) in a southern Wisconsin prairie. The out-of-focus yellow flowers are yellow coneflowers (Ratibida pinnata).

Nikon D810, Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 250, f/2.8, 1/40 sec.

Focus-stacked image created from three raw captures. Processed in Lightroom Classic CC, focus-stacking performed with Helicon Focus.

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by Craig Lipski on Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:22 pm

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Nice comp, color palette, and use of DOF

Good light,
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by Matthew Pugh on Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:46 am

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Hi

A pleasing image that has appealing colour and a interesting look

All the best
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by Tom Whelan on Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:03 pm

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Pretty background rendering, nice selective focus on the foreground flowers. Did you stack for foreground detail?

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by redbuffalo on Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:01 am

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Tom Whelan wrote:Pretty background rendering, nice selective focus on the foreground flowers. Did you stack for foreground detail?

Yes, I stacked for selective focus of the coneflowers, shooting at f/2.8 to retain blurring of all else. I do a lot of focus stacking of floral subjects and small critters using this basic technique.

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