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End of Days

            Cold winter evening—
Setting Sun illuminates
Collapsing Tulip. 

Another experiment with the fully manual CF65mmF2.8, this time shooting 10fps while dollying slowly in at f/4, which changes the field of view as well as the focal plane. Magnification about 0.4:1 for whatever is in focus. Tighter, higher magnification frames did not give me the composition I wanted. 2nd attempt at focus stacking (Auto Blend) 48 images in PhotoShop, having dropped several that contributed nothing to the final result the first time, still mixing focused and unfocused regions. Eterna, with ordinary curve corrections in post to lift shadow detail, revealing 2 levels of black in the background. 
I call this informative rather than successful. I got the composition, light, shadows, mood, palette, and most of the detail I wanted, while avoiding motion blur, but the patchy focus falls short of aspiration. 
15 Feb 2022; 13:20 CST; Eterna +
230; 44; 7
   

Taken on: February 10, 2022

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Tulip

Close up

Shadow

Eterna

Fujifilm

X-S10

Laowa

CF65mmF2.8

CA-Dreamer Macro 2X

Focus Stack

raking light

Experiment

Natural Light

Sunset

Golden Hour

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Camera: Fujifilm X-S10, f/0, 1/125 sec, 65mm (=98mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-S10
Lens:	Laowa CA Dreamer 2X Macro
Aperture:	f/0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	65mm (35mm equivalent: 98mm)
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 23.1 (Macintosh)
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