Activity for User 679 - Charles Ginsburgh - cginsburgh@gmail.com

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65 Oct 19 Comment What a wonderfully colorful image. Good job ! I am loving the colors and clarity of what you have given us. However, since one of the strong point here is the clarity of the image I do find the blurred area distracting and agree with Oscar it trying to remove or remedy this area. Oct 28th
65 Oct 19 Comment What a fun image. I like how you suggest that one thing (the balloon) might actually be another (jigsaw puzzle), and your image wonderfully supports this. Great colors and textures. Well seen and nicely captured. If this were my image I might be tempted to darken some of the lighter, (and to my eye a bit glary (is this a word?) ) areas at the base of some of the main ridges. However, if in doing so I were to find that the "depth" of the image that the main ridges provide is lost, I might abandon that effort. Something to think about. Oct 28th
65 Oct 19 Comment Neat shot. Glad you told us what is was to give it context. Otherwise it might be more of an abstract images. There is some blurring at the top and bottom as you noted. If your goal was to make the entire image sharp, more focus slices would be needed. To me there is mothering as frustrating as trying to get the entire image sharp, and just missing the point by not collecting enough sharp slices at the start and finish (of the stack). "Been There, Done That, Have the Tee-shirt". As a result I have learned to collect more slices than I think I might need, especially at the start of finish of the stack. I can always throw them away later but at last I have all of the required information if I do so. Oct 28th
65 Oct 19 Comment Sorry for the delay in responding.

When I can I try to shoot in the early morning. In my area of the country (SF bay area) the bay breezes generally don't come up until 10:30 or so, so in shooting between 7 and 10 AM I generally avoid wind driven subject movement. It is essential to know the area you are in to avoid windy times (if at all possible). In the cases where there might be some gentle movement, I try to select blooms near a main more solid stem or closer to the ground, in the hopes that I might minimize subject movement. I also try to avoid subjects that are at the end of a long unanchored stem or branch. Finally, I also carry plant clamps and "twisty-ties" which I might use to move unwanted items close to my subject, out of the 'line-of-sight" and/or to "anchor" the blooms in an attempt to minimize movement. I do strive not to break any of the plants if I can at all avoid it. Finally, sometimes though, nature wins and there is just too much movement to capture a reasonable focus slice stack. In those cases I have learned to abandon the chase, lick my wounds and to come back another time (again if at all possible). In those cases I might abandon the stack collection effort and to try a single shot (high shutter speed) shot and hope that I can get enough depth-of-field. Sometimes this works, and other times, not so much.		 Oct 28th
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