November Viola

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Was doing some yard work over the weekend and was surprised to see this little Viola Tricolor still flowering as we've already had snow in the yard a couple of times in the past month. Decided it deserved a short portrait session for hanging in there over the below freezing nights we've been having.

D850, 105mm macro lens + TC-14 iii, f/6.3, 1/15", ISO 500, 60 image stack in Zerene stacker
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gordon_g said:
This is a great shot Dave! Loving the color!
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Thanks Gordon!

FWIW, I first took the shot in the late afternoon sun that washed the colors out and shed some harsh shadows. I didn't have my little pop out diffuser handy so I just blocked the flower with my body to throw it completely in the shade and captured the series for stacking. That helped retain the colors vs direct sunlight that didn't help the image at all. Normally I would have set up a diffuser (scrim) but shade worked pretty well though it cost me a lot of shutter speed and I had to bump up the ISO a bit more than I'd like for this kind of subject.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Thanks Gordon!

FWIW, I first took the shot in the late afternoon sun that washed the colors out and shed some harsh shadows. I didn't have my little pop out diffuser handy so I just blocked the flower with my body to throw it completely in the shade and captured the series for stacking. That helped retain the colors vs direct sunlight that didn't help the image at all. Normally I would have set up a diffuser (scrim) but shade worked pretty well though it cost me a lot of shutter speed and I had to bump up the ISO a bit more than I'd like for this kind of subject.
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What I also love was the detail in the leaves, I suspect the reason for the beautiful texture was using the shade... Really nicely done... Sometime the shot while obvious the execution is not... Kudo's to the technique used here Dave!
 
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gordon_g said:
What I also love was the detail in the leaves, I suspect the reason for the beautiful texture was using the shade... Really nicely done... Sometime the shot while obvious the execution is not... Kudo's to the technique used here Dave!
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Thanks Gordon.

One thing I've learned about macro stacking is it's worth a few test shots and trying to make sure you deal with things like bad lighting or distracting backgrounds. Sure, that's a good idea for all photographs but when you're gonna load and stack fifty to a hundred D850 images to get one output it's a bummer to go through all of that to see something obvious like bad lighting after all that work :)
 
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DRwyoming said:
Was doing some yard work over the weekend and was surprised to see this little Viola Tricolor still flowering as we've already had snow in the yard a couple of times in the past month. Decided it deserved a short portrait session for hanging in there over the below freezing nights we've been having.

D850, 105mm macro lens + TC-14 iii, f/6.3, 1/15", ISO 500, 60 image stack in Zerene stacker
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Gorgeous!
 
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