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64 Aug 25 Comment I think this is a great record of your luminaria show. The stitching is very successful. I love the detail that you can get from good panoramas which are way beyond the resolution of even the best full frame cameras. Not that we can load such images onto the DD server, unfortunately.

I'd suggest that your stroke it too wide. Normally 2 to 3 pixels are enough to delineate the image from the system black background.		 Aug 12th
64 Aug 25 Comment I can sort of see what Stephen is driving at, but I still like the bridge as it's part of the story I think. So removing a little of the top and left might be OK, but the background shades frame the photo well, so not too much.

It might have been nicer to have a little sharpness in the nearer water as Stephen suggests. But as a macro photographer who takes many focus stacks, have you considered making a focus bracket of such a shot at wide aperture and then choosing which images to combine to get exactly the depth of field that you want? But I do like the heavily out of focus far background that makes the girl pop out.		 Aug 12th
64 Aug 25 Comment Ah! One of my favourite subjects, aircraft. Looks great in mono of course, being a WW2 bird. I think it's a Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster, not one I've seen before.

I really like the photo. It's sharp with nice prop blur, well placed in the frame with space above and in front. The background clouds are super. Great result!		 Aug 12th
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95 Aug 25 Comment That was a challenging task. You have a good imagination, Cheryl! But thinking of the photos from the James Webb telescope, perhaps I can imagine what you are seeing.

However, from your description, I think you were aiming more at an artistic macro, and I think that depth of field here is too little. Certainly, going down from f4 would improve the depth of field a lot, which I think is necessary here. Remember though that apertures smaller than f11 (indicated) can lose sharpness due to diffraction. Having said that, our good friend Tom (no longer a group 95 member) often posted images at f32 (actual) with good sharpness.

But as always, if you can do a focus bracket, you can then choose your depth of field to get the effect that you want.		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment We've seen lots of Carol's image in the past where she has deliberately restricted the depth off field to get a lovely artistic effect. Here I was thinking initially that the sharpness had been missed, but the very centre ovary and stigma do look fairly sharp.
I think the result has a "painterly" effect. Given the sharper area, I do like the gentle softness of the photo, and the bokeh highlights the flower well.		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment Well done on getting so close, I guess your final magnification must have been up in the 5x region?
I wonder how much you cropped, as the result has lost sharpness, although the bottom area towards the left does look sharp. So maybe it's the usual problem of tiny depth of field in a non-stacked real macro image. I like the background which complements the subject.		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment I think this picture has a lovely quality to it. It's not bitingly sharp, but is consistently sharp enough, so the centre still has lots of detail.
Some might not like the little bit of petal cut off at the bottom, and I'd prefer to take out the brown areas below the two petals on the right. But overall, a nice picture.		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment I'm no entomologist, but that looks like a moth to me!

I think this is a good result, with a nice subject and composition. Your stack seems to have just failed to get the closest part of the wing sharp. I try to remember to get ready to take my bracket and then move away a little before pressing the shutter button, as my first frame is sometimes just out of focus like this.

Perhaps the insect could be lightened a little to make it stand out more?		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment Your heavy crop has certainly taken a fairly uninteresting original and produced a picture that's much more interesting to me.
Cropping a non-macro original to a macro does have the advantage of increasing depth of field, but at the expense of sharpness. It depends on your purpose for the image. You might struggle to get exhibition quality with this technique as effectively you are using a small sensor despite the quality of the original, but if it fits your purpose then it's fine.		 Aug 12th
95 Aug 25 Comment I think the detail and texture of the flower is quite nice, but for me it doesn't work as a picture. The flower is central, and there is no stalk to act as a lead-in, or leaves, so it just floats in space. The dark background does make the flower stand out well, but the relative highlights in the background ar a bit distracting for me. Aug 12th
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