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"Stacked and Stitched" by Warren Sarle
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15-MAR-2008

4th (Tie)
"Stacked and Stitched" by Warren Sarle

Quick and dirty, but I've been working 12 to 18 hour days for the last two weeks until hitting a figurative brick wall today.

Focus stacking (with CombineZM) was used to get most of the flowers in focus.
There were 16 shots in each stack. Since I also wanted a blurry background,
each shot was at f/4. Normally I would shoot at f/16 because that reduces
focus-stacking artifacts and doesn't require so many photos. I really should
have shot 64 photos to get everything in focus at f/4. I cloned out some of
the artifacts, but you may possibly still see some if you look closely at the
edges between a sharp area and a blurry area.

I stitched 4 stacked images because I don't have a studio anymore, and there
wasn't enough room on my Mother's porch to get everything in the image otherwise,
and it was very windy outdoors. The stitching, fortunately, was easy because
Autopano Pro did everything automatically.


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Argishti Khachik07-Jun-2008 22:51
Fantastic work! Bravo.
kodak_challenge16-Mar-2008 09:01
Ah.....that's lovely.
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Guest 16-Mar-2008 06:09
Stunning. - Albert