[Leica] Still Life

[Douglas Barry]

Very productive, Jayanand. It's hard to spot actual differences but the 
last four do give the impression of greater smoothness. I have to say I 
like the last one best - the Leica clinches it!

BTW I'm surprised to see a bottle of orange bitters in your house, as 
with all those wonderful ingredients near you in the markets, I thought 
you'd be whipping up your own with all this time on your hands.

For instance :-)

Allow four weeks to prepare this bitters recipe.

8oz Dried Orange Peel, Chopped Very Fine
1 Teaspoon Cardamom Seeds (taken out of their pods)
1/2 Teaspoon Caraway Seeds
1 Teaspoon Coriander Seeds
1 Teaspoon Quassia Chips
1/2 Teaspoon Powdered Cinchona Bark
1/4 Teaspoon Gentian
2 Cups Grain Alcohol
4 1/2 Cups Water, Divided Into 1/2 Cup, 3 1/2 Cups, and 1/2 Cup
1 Cup Granulated Sugar

BTW I'd never even heard of Quassia or Cinchona!
http://postprohibition.com/diy/regans-orange-bitters-no-5/

Douglas

On 15/04/2020 06:37, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> After twiddling my thumbs for a few days after the lock down started here
> in India, I decided to teach myself focus stacking, and shoot some still
> life compositions at home. Luckily, the Nikon Z7 has an automatic focus
> stacking feature built in, which they call "Focus Shift". After due
> experimentation to learn how the settings affect the final output, I
> decided to start. These are some of my initial efforts. Most of these
> required blending of 10 -20 images. The camera used was Nikon Z7 with the
> Nikkor Z24-70mm f4S kit lens. and the software used was Lightroom
> Classic/Helicon Focus/Photoshop CC. I first tried blending in Photoshop,
> but found that regularly introduced artifacts, so I purchased Helicon
> Focus, which is really on a different level altogether for blending a
> series of photographs. The first four submissions are blended with
> Photoshop CC, and the last four with Helicon Focus.
>
> First up I started with some oranges and newspapers:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/fs12-20200409-032.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/fs13-20200409-017.jpg.html
>
> Then I tried my hand at more traditional fare:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/FS-20200406-075.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/FS1-20200405-005.jpg.html
>
> Three variations, both in terms of viewing angle as well as formats, with
> much the same props:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+08-50-02+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+09-14-55+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+09-36-02+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
>
> Finally, some design and product classics from Europe (Luis should
> recognize the camera!). Painting by my granddaughter when she was 4 years
> old:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-10+15-56-14+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE.
>
> Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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