Purple Mullein

Purple Mullein

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DescriptionOne of the last flowers blooming at present.  This was in the brambles up at the top of the woods behind the church.  I set up the tripod with the 60mm and the Raynox lens with the Manfrotto lights and did several focus stacks.  This is a manual composite of two of them because the flower moved slightly between stacks and the first one had the stamens complete but not the flower behind them and vice versa the one with the petals missed half the pollen.  When stacking both together the movement between stacks was half a grain of pollen, but more importantly was rotated slightly and the parallax lead to ghosting in the output.  So I took the centre of one and superimposed it on the other manually.  There might be a slight enlargement therefore of the centre, but now you get the focus front to back.  Again trouble managing the red channel, this is not far off the right colour, but is rather darker.  Lightening it loses contrast rapidly so it has been left alone for now.
ArtistRob Daykin
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Date Time Created2021:09:04 16:40:46
MakeOLYMPUS CORPORATION
ModelE-M1MarkIII
Lens Info60mm f/2.8
Lens ModelOLYMPUS M.60mm F2.8 Macro
Focal Length60.0 mm
F Number5.6
Aperture5.6
ISO200
Shutter Speed1/125