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I am (slowly) trying to reduce my backlog of unprocessed images. Here are some that I have just processed from a session in our garden in July last year.
The source files were captured hand-held using natural light with a Panasonic G9 and Olympus 60mm macro.
For the focus stacked images I used Helicon Focus to extract JPEGs from 6K videos, stack them and retouch them. I then used Lightroom for post processing and DeNoise AI for output sharpening and noise reduction. #3, #4 and #6 also had a round trip from Lightroom to Photoshop and back for a little edge-stretching to balance the compositions.
The single-capture images were captured as raw using aperture bracketing. I used Silkypix for raw conversion, Lightroom for post processing and DeNoise AI for output sharpening and noise reduction. #2 and #5 also had a round trip from Lightroom to Photoshop and back to remove distractions using cloning that was too difficult to do in Lightroom.
#2 used PhotoLab after Silkypix. I have an on/off relationship with PhotoLab as far as flowers are concerned. I included it in the processing chain for the first few images I processed but as I have felt before the effect seemed a bit heavy-handed, as for example with the petals on #2. Rather than trying to adjust the PhotoLab parameters I just dropped it from the processing chain and was content with what I got without it. I forgot to go back and reprocess #2 without PhotoLab. (Incidentally, PhotoLab remains a key element for my invertebrate images, even though I now use it after Silkypix rather than before and consequently cannot use PhotoLab's PRIME noise reduction, which originally was my main reason for purchasing PhotoLab.)
These images are taken from this album at Flickr, which contains 1300 pixel high versions of these images and the other images from the session.
#1 Single-capture image.
1703 16 2019_07_02 P1073075 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI1,29 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2 Single-capture image.
1703 04 2019_07_02 P1072609 SP10_PLab3-Edit LR 1300hDNAI2,16 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3 Focus stacked from 107 6K video frames.
1703 14 2019_07_02 P1072957_0025 107 C,Smoothing4+i-Edit LR 1300hDNA15,15Mask by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 Focus stacked from 40 6K video frames.
1703 09 2019_07_02 P1072821_0003 40 C,Smoothing4-Edit LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 Single-capture image
1703 23 2019_07_02 P1073238 SP10-Edit LR 1300hDNAI2,7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 Focus stacked from 67 6K video frames.
1703 30 2019_07_02 P1083488_0005 67 B,Radius28,Smoothing4-Edit LR 1300hDNAIAuto by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7 Single-capture image
1703 31 2019_07_02 P1083532 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI1,4 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8 Single-capture image
1703 35 2019_07_02 P1083615 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI3,7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
The source files were captured hand-held using natural light with a Panasonic G9 and Olympus 60mm macro.
For the focus stacked images I used Helicon Focus to extract JPEGs from 6K videos, stack them and retouch them. I then used Lightroom for post processing and DeNoise AI for output sharpening and noise reduction. #3, #4 and #6 also had a round trip from Lightroom to Photoshop and back for a little edge-stretching to balance the compositions.
The single-capture images were captured as raw using aperture bracketing. I used Silkypix for raw conversion, Lightroom for post processing and DeNoise AI for output sharpening and noise reduction. #2 and #5 also had a round trip from Lightroom to Photoshop and back to remove distractions using cloning that was too difficult to do in Lightroom.
#2 used PhotoLab after Silkypix. I have an on/off relationship with PhotoLab as far as flowers are concerned. I included it in the processing chain for the first few images I processed but as I have felt before the effect seemed a bit heavy-handed, as for example with the petals on #2. Rather than trying to adjust the PhotoLab parameters I just dropped it from the processing chain and was content with what I got without it. I forgot to go back and reprocess #2 without PhotoLab. (Incidentally, PhotoLab remains a key element for my invertebrate images, even though I now use it after Silkypix rather than before and consequently cannot use PhotoLab's PRIME noise reduction, which originally was my main reason for purchasing PhotoLab.)
These images are taken from this album at Flickr, which contains 1300 pixel high versions of these images and the other images from the session.
#1 Single-capture image.
1703 16 2019_07_02 P1073075 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI1,29 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2 Single-capture image.
1703 04 2019_07_02 P1072609 SP10_PLab3-Edit LR 1300hDNAI2,16 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3 Focus stacked from 107 6K video frames.
1703 14 2019_07_02 P1072957_0025 107 C,Smoothing4+i-Edit LR 1300hDNA15,15Mask by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 Focus stacked from 40 6K video frames.
1703 09 2019_07_02 P1072821_0003 40 C,Smoothing4-Edit LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 Single-capture image
1703 23 2019_07_02 P1073238 SP10-Edit LR 1300hDNAI2,7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 Focus stacked from 67 6K video frames.
1703 30 2019_07_02 P1083488_0005 67 B,Radius28,Smoothing4-Edit LR 1300hDNAIAuto by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7 Single-capture image
1703 31 2019_07_02 P1083532 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI1,4 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8 Single-capture image
1703 35 2019_07_02 P1083615 SP10 LR 1300hDNAI3,7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
