Christmas Eve in the garden

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These were captured on Christmas Eve in our garden using a Panasonic G9 and Olympus 60mm macro to capture 6K post focus videos from which I used Helicon Focus to extract JPEGs to stack, finishing off the images in Lightroom. The descriptions below indicate the processing done in Helicon Focus.

There are 1400 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.

#1 Stack of 27 frames, f/2.8, 1/125 sec, ISO 800, Single stack retouched from one or more source images.


1417 02 2018_12_24 P1001204 G9+60 PF27f F2.8 1-125 ISO800 -0.3EV B8,3+i LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#2 Stack of 48 frames, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, ISO 800, Two stacks merged, one for the subject and one for the background.


1417 05 2018_12_24 P1001226 G9+60 PF48f F2.8 1-160 ISO800 -0.7EV B7,2+outerA7,8 LR7 1400h-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#3 Stack of 55 frames, f/2.8, 1/125 sec, ISO 200, Single stack retouched with a very small amount of cloning.


1417 09 2018_12_24 P1001250 G9+60 PF55f F2.8 1-125 ISO200 -0.7EV B33,2+cl LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#4 Stack of 97 frames, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, ISO 400, Single unretouched stack.


1417 10 2018_12_24 P1001258 G9+60 PF97f F2.8 1-160 ISO400 -0.3EV C2 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#5 Stack of 75 frames, f/2.8, 1/400 sec, ISO 800. Two stacks merged, one for the subject and one for the background.


1417 14 2018_12_24 P1001306 G9+60 PF75f F2.8 1-400 ISO800 0EV C4+outerB19,9 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#6 Stack of 73 frames, f/2.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 800, Single stack retouched from one or more source images.


1417 19 2018_12_24 P1001340 G9+60 PF73f F2.8 1-80 ISO800 -0.7EV B9,3+i LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#7 Stack of 61 frames, f/2.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 800, Single unretouched stack.


1417 20 2018_12_24 P1001357 G9+60 PF61f F2.8 1-80 ISO800 -0.7EV B9,3 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#8 Stack of 27 frames, f/2.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 800, Single stack retouched from one or more source images.


1417 21 2018_12_24 P1001367 G9+60 PF27f F2.8 1-80 ISO800 -0.7EV B9,3+i LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
Blimey Nick this must have taken you all Chrimbo day and part of this morning to process these shots.
All really lovely but for me the last one is my fav :)
 
Graham said:
Blimey Nick this must have taken you all Chrimbo day and part of this morning to process these shots.
All really lovely but for me the last one is my fav :)
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Thanks Graham. It was all done yesterday. To my surprise it didn't take all that long. I did it in bits and pieces between the other stuff going on so I don't really know how long it took altogether. I think I'm getting faster at the processing the more of these I do, having a better idea what methods and parameters are most likely to work. Perhaps I'm also getting better at picking subjects which are less likely to be problematic, and quicker to abandon the ones that do turn out to be difficult to process. For the ones that are fairly straightforward it can be quite quick.
 
lightshipman said:
You really seem to have this stacking process worked out now Nick. Nice images.
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Thanks Andrew. I'm getting more comfortable with stacking of late - the processing doesn't seem to be as much of a struggle (or as annoying and demotivating) as it was previously. That has taken a while. Now I need to develop a balanced approach where I mix single shots and stacking; I'm concentrating almost exclusively on stacking at the moment and that is not good.
 
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