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Subject: [Leica] [LRflex] Friday Flowers from the South
From: leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:46:21 -0800
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Thanks for looking and the kind comments.

ISO 100 is the base ISO for the D7000.  When you use the "minus" or "plus"
it does not change the ISO.  In A mode it changes the shutter speed.

To take these photos, it is a bracketing situation.  Focus on one plane,
shoot, then adjust the plane so it covers from front to back (or reverse if
you choose) all you want in focus.  I usually use f 4 or f 5.6 so the
background maintains a pleasant blur, yet have sufficient DOF to fill in the
distance between exposures.  Sometimes I fail, sometimes I win.  Then I use
Lightroom to make adjustments and then CS5 to blend them.

The Nikon cameras do have onboard multiple exposure capabilities, but so far
there is a bug in Lightroom and Photoshop that renders the image highly
magenta, so for me right now it is useless.  Adobe says it will be fixed
next version.  A friend with his D200 takes some interesting double
exposures.  Canon does not offer this.

Aram



> From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] [LRflex] Friday Flowers from the South
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> Beautiful Aram and really worth the efforts you have put into them.
>
> The second one is stunning.
> Kudos
>
> I don't know about the pods but have seen similar ones round here.
>
>
> If I may ask a few technical questions:
> a) is 100 the base ISO of the camera? or did you use the "minus"
> setting? (trivial knowledge I know)
> b) more importantly for me to ^progress: is it on board multi
> exposure? or sort of bracketting with focus adjustments in between and
> then collapsing the layers during post processing??
>
> Whatever the technique it works very well and doesn't show.
> There was a thread yesterday on the LUG about Fx, its successes and
> abuses, assets and flaws;
> when I see how "natural" your results look,
> I think your technique was necessary and meets success,
>
> and I'm thankful to you for sharing it all with us :-)
>
> Bien cordialement de Metz
> Philippe
>
>
> Le 21 janv. 11 ? 17:05, Aram Langhans a ?crit :
>
>>
>> Actually some flowers down here in Southern California.
>> Here is a camellia in bloom, a composite of 9 photos.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w2010/fl/camilia-0850-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>>
>> And here  are some pods that once were flowers, a composite of 15
>> photos.  I have no idea what the tree name is.  HELP?
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w2010/fl/Pods+2-0987-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> View large....    Comments and criticism welcome.
>>
>>
>> Aram
>>
>>