Camellia and Hellebore

gardenersassistant · Post by **gardenersassistant** » Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:37 pm

These were captured hand-held yesterday in the field (well, in our garden). Recently I have taken to using a tripod for this sort of scene but these subjects were so awkwardly positioned that using a tripod was not feasible even with my very flexible tripod and the hands-on technique that I usually employ that lets me use the tripod in highly unstable configurations to reach awkwardly positioned subjects.

I used 6K post focus with a Panasonic G9 and Olympus 60mm macro. I used Helicon Focus to extract JPEGs from the 6K videos and stack them, and used Lightroom to finish the images.

Camellia
24 frames stacked, f/5.6, 1/50 sec, ISO 800

1433 3 2019_01_28 P1013860 G9+60 PF24f F5.6 1-50 ISO800 -0.7EV B8,3 LR 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

Close up of the same flower. (Quite a large crop, but not cropped from the above image.)
28 frames stacked, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO 400

1433 4 2019_01_28 P1013863 G9+60 PF28f F2.8 1-100 ISO400 -0.7EV B8,3 LR 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

Hellebore
34 frames stacked, f/2.8, 1/250 sec, ISO 400

1433 7 2019_01_28 P1013899 G9+60 PF34f F2.8 1-250 ISO400 -0.7EV B8,3+innerC3 LR 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

Close up of a different flower on the same plant.
63 frames stacked, f/5.6, 1/60 sec, ISO 800

1433 8 2019_01_28 P1013905 G9+60 PF63f F5.6 1-60 ISO800 -0.7EV C3 LR 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

leonardturner · Post by **leonardturner** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:11 am

Very nice images. I particularly like the second one; good color and very good pollen detail.

Leonard

gardenersassistant · Post by **gardenersassistant** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 6:58 am

leonardturner wrote:Very nice images. I particularly like the second one; good color and very good pollen detail.

Leonard

Thanks. I'm pleased with the colours the G9 is giving me. I think it is probably helping that I am setting the camera white balance quite frequently during a session using the grey panel of a ColorChecker Passport. (Not particularly that it is a ColorChecker Passport; that is simply providing a - presumably 18% - grey area in a robust package. But helping in that I am at last getting into the habit of setting the white balance out in the field.)