It’s unusual for it to be still the day after a hurricane comes through, but then again it’s unusual for it to be sunny with awesome clouds the day it does like it was last Saturday and Sunday when Hurricane Bill so why should I have been surprised when it was nearly dead calm after Hurricane Danny passed? But still it was after we got back from the beach and it gave me a chance to play a bit with some later season flowers.
This is a 13 image composite taken at tiny little increments of focus point on the pink flower. There are a few ways to process this but I chose to do it all in CS4. I imported them all from LR2 as layers in one document then used auto-align. After about 5 minutes it finished and I did a rough crop and went for auto-blend using the stack images command. 10 hours later (it felt like) I got pretty much this result. The only other tweaks were further croping and a pro-contrast layer from Nik Software’s Color efex pro and then a run of the “make it glow” action by Tony Kuyper and an adjustment of the opacity of the two layers.
