[Leica] Still Life

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nathan,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:53 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
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> Love the veggies!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 15 Apr 2020, at 07:37, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > First up I started with some oranges and newspapers:
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/fs12-20200409-032.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/fs13-20200409-017.jpg.html
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> > Then I tried my hand at more traditional fare:
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/FS-20200406-075.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/FS1-20200405-005.jpg.html
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> > Three variations, both in terms of viewing angle as well as formats, with
> > much the same props:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+08-50-02+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+09-14-55+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-11+09-36-02+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
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> > Finally, some design and product classics from Europe (Luis should
> > recognize the camera!). Painting by my granddaughter when she was 4 years
> > old:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/FS/2020-04-10+15-56-14+_B_Radius8_Smoothing4_.jpg.html
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> > Please see LARGE.
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> > Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome.
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> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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