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Dear Goldie;

OK, this is a mini-series here that I've done around the end of April when I noticed this little flower in the yard. Again, it is a short-lived one, so I had to work quickly. Like "Maggie" before, I've made many shots handheld with auto-ISO and 100mm macro lens. Here, I've merged many images by focus-stacking them. If I'm not mistaken, I think the flower is called "oxeye" and probably of the same family as daisies. Don't take my word for it, I'm no expert!
The shots combined here were shot with ISO 6400 (and I'm surprised because it was morning time and not dark, but this is auto-ISO for you). I tried my best here to clean the noise and still keeping the image "acceptable" so in the end not much noise was cleaned really (it wouldn't be clear unless at 100% zoom or so). So, the grains on the petals are actually half real, and half noise, if I can say so. I also did a controlled sharpening (sharpening some areas and leaving others).

#oxeye #flower #bloom #blossom #petals #yellow #gold #golden #macro #macrophotography #nature #natural #goodmorning
Two Maggies (3D);

3D Saturday! So, I spotted 2 "maggies" yesterday in the morning, and decided to take quick shots (at the moment they've just disappeared!). However, not wanting to struggle with the colors, I've converted everything to B&W and made the anaglyph. There is still some ghosting a bit, more on the bottom part of the image (specially the left side).

#anaglyph #3d #illusion #flower #natural #nature #bloom #blossom #bnw #monochrome #stereogram #stereograph #goodmorning
Dear Maggie (5);

Fifth "shot" and before the last of Maggie's series. This one in particular is interesting because I used a technique that I don't typically use; not much. This is the "super-resolution" technique.
In the past, I had a program to do this (I think it was called "PhotoAcute"). However, I learned later on how to do this directly in Photoshop. New versions of Photoshop do have such an option implemented, but I don't know how it works really. The goal of such technique, anyway, is to increase the resolution of an image almost to a double. Useful in case you'd be thinking of cropping the image in the end, but one has to take many shots to combine them together (which was done here). In fact, I might as well crop this image and zoom only on the flower since it is in super-resolution!!

#flower #bloom #blossom #magenta #SR #superresolution #petals #nature #natural #macro #macrophotography #goodmorning
Dear Maggie (4);

Again with Maggie (before it went POFF!). I think this one was done again with focus stacking, but instead of cropping to 16:9, I've cropped it into a square. The color processing was also different a bit here as I kept the somewhat luminous green. This brightness or shade of green is aided by the color of the shade above the yard which is green, and here, instead of correcting the colors, I've worked with the tint. I'm still wondering what this flower is called though!

#magenta #macro #macrophotography #petals #flower #bloom #blossom #nature #natural #green #goodmorning