Thanks! For sure, dramatic sunrise clouds are one of my favourite fall features.
Came across a collection of starfish at Cates Park this morning due to low tide. I've never seen them up close like this before, very alien looking.
The dregs of summer are upon us for sure. Most plants are either withering away, or are big leafy greens (which don't typically macrophoto very well). Caught this lil purple guy along the trail in Capilano Canyon.
Wildfire smoke still pretty strong here in Vancouver. This is a viewpoint from Burnaby Mountain, looking north towards Deep Cove and Indian Arm.
Thanks very much! This was shot on a Nikon Z6, using the F-mount 105mm macro lens. It's a focus stack of 25 exposures, each shot at 0.4s f/5.6.
Thanks very much! It’s pretty hot right now, we’ve got a few days of 30C weather in front of us right now. Been a very dry summer (by Vancouver standards, at any rate).
Took a walk around Cliff Falls Park in Maple Ridge this morning. Might be worth a re-visit in the fall, once the water flow is stronger.
Thank you! Process involves shooting a range of images in the field (generally more than I need), then merging them in either Photoshop or a tool like Helicon Focus. I then select the edge shots (where I'd like the focus to begin and end), and then selectively edit and/or remove shots from the stack; perhaps the wind moved the subject a bit, or a bug entered shot. Following that is my usual RAW processing regime, which varies from shot to shot.
Thanks! The drop-off is something that I've struggled with using this process so far, as the edge shots will have the same shallow DoF that all of the other ones do. If there were a way to vary aperture while shooting the stack, that might be a way to do it.
Thanks! Glad you liked it (and I didn’t even see your pre-edit, but for clarity, this was taken at Barnet Marine Park in Burnaby, BC).
Hiking a very dry Menzies Trail in Golden Ears this morning, came across a few bunches of what I believe to be Buffaloberries. I like the leaf lines in this a lot.
Managed to get up early enough to catch a summer sunrise in North Van today. Always a struggle to get out the door by 4:30am in the summer.
Caught some raspberries in the process of ripening this morning on a hike along Admiralty Point Trail in Belcarra.
Finally got a shot of this odd door near Cleveland Dam in Capilano Canyon this morning. I'm not sure what it's for... presuming it's an emergency exit or something similar.
Exploring some trails on Mt. Fromme today. Streams were all really dry... hoping that this will be a good re-visit in the fall once things are wet again.