Sea Shells

[DigitalScape]

Here is the process:

• Go to the beach
  
• Walk along the shore and pick up sea shells
• Bring the shells home (it does help if you rinse the shells off before putting them in with your luggage)
• Take 40 individual images of the shells
• Import all of these into Photoshop
• Have Photoshop assemble a single image
• Finish processing assembled image
• Flatten all layers as the Photoshop can not save a file that is over 2GB
  
• Final image is 107.5M pixels

[Stagecoach]

Nice image John but I'm curious as to your reasoning behind producing this image from 40 shots rather than 1 ?

Grahame

[DigitalScape]

Thank you, Grahame.

I do not have a real good reason for the 40 image composite, Grahame. I was shooting with a macro lens, shooting tight to get maximum detail in the shells, and I wanted to get all the shells in one image for a very large print (if I decide to print this). So I guess it boils down to seeing whether or not I could do it (all 40 images were shot handheld).

[NorthernFocus]

Seems like a long way around but it came out well.

[Hui Song]

I do like the final image.

[bnnrcn]

Nice colours and nice image.

[Wavelength]

Very nice image; but that was a too high denominator there

[chauncey]

Or just go to Michaels Craft stores for bags of them.