[Leica] Experiment

[Aram Langhans]

Loving the cactus blooms down here, and they are even accessible for me 
to hobble to.  So, here is a bit of an experiment and perhaps an unfair 
comparison.  First shot is camera on tripod, Nikon Z7ii with 105 S 
macro, F8,  6 shots for focus stacking.  In other words, perhaps the 
ideal of what I can do.

Cactus Flower-9985-Edit 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/Flowers-Spring/Cactus+Flower-9985-Edit.jpg.html>

Second shot was an afterthought with the Q3, handheld, so only one shot, 
also F8 in Macro mode.  Far from ideal.  Perhaps I should have stopped 
down more, but I did not want the gravel behind the flower to be too 
sharp.  Remember, 28mm lens.

Cactus Flower-1004494 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/Flowers-Spring/Cactus+Flower-1004494.jpg.html>

I have my obvious preference, but perhaps the other one would be 
acceptable if I did not have the other camera setup.  I know a tripod 
with the Q3 and perhaps F4 to throw the gravel more out of focus, with 
multiple exposures for stacking would have been better, but the flower 
was low and with my knee I did not feel like bending over that much to 
get the shot after I already had the Nikon shots.  With 105mm I did not 
have to get that low.

So, comments welcome.  What do you think?

Aram

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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson