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Taken 12-May-16

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Keywords:Bognor Regis, Sussex, garden, West Sussex, England, UK, Britain, Europe, weed%d dandelion, dof, depth of field, brokeh, focus, blur, macro, stacked, focus stacked, focus stacking, park, nature, spring, winter, May, background, 80mm, zoom, lens, sigma, Sony, sun, light, colour, color, pic, dslr, topaz, dslra550, photoshop

Photo Info

Dimensions5938 x 4010

Original file size9.28 MB

Image typeJPEG

Color spacesRGB

Date taken12-May-16 14:10

Shooting Conditions

Camera makeSONY

Camera modelDSLR-A550

Focal length80 mm

Focal length (35mm)120 mm

Max lens aperturef/5.6

Exposure1/800 at f/5.6

FlashNot fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias0 EV

Exposure modeAuto

Exposure prog.Aperture priority

ISO speedISO 200

Metering modePattern

Dandelion in Spring Focus

This shot was taken in my back garden. As I only grow grass and weeds there I decided to give the weeds a chance with this focus stacked image of a dandelion.

The image is formed from a Stack of 16 images all at slightly different focus and stacked in Photoshop. Full details of the focus stacking technique can be found on a Blog entry from last year see - http://edwinjonesphotography.com/blog/2015/2/february-spring-crocus-bloom

The camera used was a Sony A550 with a Sigma 28-80 zoom with a macro function at 80mm. Taken on a mini Tripod. Main processing was first Topaz DeNoise and then Topaz Clarity for more detail concentrating on the dandelion by applying the effect on a duplicate layer with a layer mask. More punch and contrast was added by using unsharp mask with setting of amount 47 and Radius 47 again applied only to the dandelion with a layer mask.