A Hardy Terrestrial Orchid Pleione formosana Images Added

Harold Gough

These terrestrial orchids are easier to grow than the epiphytic ones.

EP-2, ED 35mm 3.5 4/3 macro, hand-held.

Edit: exif data found in Raw file: 1/100 f8 ISO 640 AF

Edit: exif data found in Raw file: 1/40 f10 ISO 640 AF

Harold
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orionmystery · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 838 Location: Malaysia

Lovely shots, beautiful orchid. Esp like 2.
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Harold Gough · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:37 am Post subject:

Here is a cross-eye stereo pair, using a tripod:

Do they work for you?

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Mitch640 · Joined: 15 Aug 2010 Posts: 2137

The stereo works for me, although I had to work at it. Some just kind of drop into place, some don't. Haven't figured out why.

MarkB1 · Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 626 Location: Australia

and the stereo works fine.
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Harold Gough · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:35 am Post subject:

Thanks, Mitch & Mark

That slab of almost white may work against it. Unfortunately, I had to rush to get it done before a visitor turned up and this could be the last day of the flower looking so good.

Having now found a bit more time, and not so rushed, here is another pair, this time without the slab of pale background:

I had great difficulty in loading one of these images, the software claiming it was too large whereas it is minute compared with some I have posted.

Harold
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lauriek · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:00 am Post subject:

Tis a lovely flower, the trumpet reminds me of a foxglove in shape and pattern, although it does have extra frilly bits! Smile

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ChrisR · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 3053 Location: Near London, UK

Yep, clicking into register quickly and making a clean image. Very Happy

At 291,735 bytes you're only just inside the 300k file size limit, perhaps the compression wasn't enough.

Harold Gough · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:49 am Post subject:

Thanks, Chaps.

I wish I could see cross-eye ones. No problem with conventional transparency pairs.

It was taken on the EP-2 with the Olympus 4/35mm macro lens, on a tripod at about f16, ISO 100 (? my exif data is still missing), bright overcast day, no wind.

I've taken a series of shots for eventual stacking. It was to be a stereo pair but the light changed after the left set, going from sun to overcast for an indefinite period.

Harold
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conkar · Joined: 18 Dec 2010 Posts: 189 Location: Sweden

Thanks for the nice pictures Harold!

You also seems to have a good collection of interesting plants in your garden.

May I ask you if there are some Carnivorous plants in your collection?

Best regards,

Conny

Harold Gough · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:20 am Post subject:

Thanks to some PM coaching from Chris, I can now see all cross-eye pairs in 3D. Great joy! Very Happy

Harold
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Harold Gough · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:45 am Post subject:

Harold Gough · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:14 am Post subject:

I said I had done a series for stacking. I used my Manfrotto 454 rail, out of its packet for the first time.

I have also installed Zerene Stacker.

I gave some initial sharpening and increased contrast slightly in Olympus Master 2, the only software which will download and read ORFs. I then fed the 19 images (f3.5) into Zerene Stacker.

Unfortunately, having set up the rail carefully (in a shaded conservatory), while fiddling with it I seem to have moved the focus unknowingly, losing the closest part of the flower. So the stack was disappointing. The good news is that, without moving the setup (on tripod) I took a standard, small aperture shot. I re-ran the stack, getting ZS to combine the deep focus image with the first stack. I then process in Photoshop and here is the result (total 20 shots).

Stacked:

Stacked, cropped:

The original, single, outdoor shot:

I had considerable difficulty getting this post how I wanted it and some folks may hacve seen it with only one image at times during that process.

Harold
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ChrisR · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 3053 Location: Near London, UK

Harold Gough · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:45 am Post subject:

The shooting position for thr stacks and for the single shot, small aperture were the same. You may have decided that the stack give the best result. However, I bellieve I trusted the AF too much.

Here is another shot where I double-checked, and given similar adjustment:

Harold
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