About the Image(s)

For several years now I have grown some lilies in my garden which I then use in photographs. Unfortunately this year all the flowers opened whilst I was away from home, so I had to buy a bunch to photograph in the local supermarket.
I took the opportunity to experiment with my medium format GFX50 sit body and 63mm f2,8 lens for close up work and the possibility of using it for some natural history images. This image was created from a stack 10 RAW images all at â…› sec, f16 ISO 400 using natural light. To create the stack I set up the camera on a tripod and set single point focusing. I then moved the focusing dot around/ through the image, starting at a point closes to the camera and finished at a point furthest from the camera. The Image stack was taken into Photoshop and used the Photoshop stacking process. I then applied the ‘stamp’ tool to make an appropriate sized file to make final adjustments - a curves layer to increase the brightness and some selective High Pass to increase the detail.