I tried focus stacking today! Probably went a little overboard because I'm not particularly good at remembering exactly where I focused each time.
This is a composite of 18 images at f/9. Likely could have gotten away with fewer layers, but since it was a simple image it didn't take PS too long to put it all together for me. Then some cropping and blurring of the stem to make it a more gradual fade. The combined flowerhead (it's an armeria/sea thrift for you flower people) is smaller than my fingernail.
Thanks for the challenge, @
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You accept a challenge real quick. I would have to think about it for days, find the software, try it out (days), take some rubbish shots and fail in the software, ask three trillion questions on multiple websites, get fed up with failing, remember a week later and maybe do one image that s OK and then post it to absolutely no positive response whatsoever. Hmm? Maybe its an attitude thing
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First time effort is brilliant. I would look again at the stem; to me a little unreal.
Regards Sharkey
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Poundbury is a town (or, rather, a suburb of Dorchester, in Dorset) built according to Prince Charles’s idiosyncratic ideas about architecture and town planning. It’s a bizarre place, like a film set (the Truman Show?). One idea that does seem to work is the total absence of road markings and signs: no white lines, no yellow lines, no speed restrictions, no stop signs, etc. Just broad streets and squares where motorists and pedestrians mingle…
The Prince has some really good ideas.
For me the construction values could have bee maintained across a lower price property layer within this development although I realise the surrounding price range is high, allowing for lower cost properties would have broadend the community more than is possible at present. Retirement is not the only driving force for smaller/cheaper housing. The number of unattached people is rising and their isolation increases as they are forced more into the rented sector or 'Hotel Mum & Dad'.
I love the clean lines and layout of this place as much as I despeise the over signage, restrictions to movement and general messiness of todays towns/cities. It seems we learn very little about our living spaces from history - Ahh Well - old grouch I suppose
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Oh and I like the photograph
Regards Sharkey
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