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Lichen Garden

Started 3 months ago | Photos thread
maggiemole Senior Member • Posts: 1,987
Re: Lichen Garden

You have inspired me to try to shoot my own lichen garden - and that's when I began to appreciate your skill!

Shot at f8 indoors on a day of very poor natural light, with added light from LumeCube2, hand-held. Background is ordinary copy paper - don't know how to do it on a black background.

I shoot M43 with a GX9 and Olympus 30mm macro lens, and this was originally a stack of 45. I culled it to 30 TIFFs then stacked them in Helicon Focus. I found the stacking difficult, and cursed the cropping that occurs when shooting Post Focus. I dislike tripods and used a monopod to try to keep the camera fixed, but even that was awkward. Placing the subjects, the camera, the light and the monopod made me quite bad-tempered! C&C and your own improvements very welcome.

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