Sunflower

Gloria picked up some cut flowers at the farmers market in Cheboygan this past Saturday.  Today I used them for some still life macro photography.  

Those of you who dabble with photography might realize that when you do close ups like this its very difficult to get the entire image in sharp focus.  There is a technique called "Focus Stacking" .  When you use focus stacking you take several images of the same subject, but you adjust the focus point further back in the scene for each shot, then merge the images together, using software like Photoshop,  to form one image with most of the subject in sharp focus.  It so happens my cameras can do this for me, I don't need to use special software.  

So this is a pair of  in-camera focus stacked image,  I think I had the camera set for 8 images to merge into one.  

The flowers were facing the sun as I captured my images from the back side of the flowers.

Captured with my Olympus OMD EMX, fitted with the 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens.  1/125 sec at f/11 with an iso of 200.  I had just removed the 40-150mm zoom to make way for the 60mm macro lens.  I had 40-150 zoom standing upright and rested the camera body on top of it to keep the camera steady for the 8 shots.