Bark? Bark!

[FrankMi]

The color and texture of a silent bark.



I thought I'd try something different and see how many colors and textures there might be in a tree trunk.

C&C welcomed!

[Shadowman]

Always an interesting study. Nice effort.

[GeorgeM]

This is nice. Love me some fungi and trees

[bnnrcn]

I love this kind of photos very much Frank,when spring comes I will try some.May I ask something about this type of shots?Whenever I see a photo of a tree trunk in details,they usually don't look sharp,is it because of the complicated texture...you know there are so many lines and patterns next to each other..Are they in fact sharp but our eyes sense them unsharp because of the complicated texture?

[FrankMi]

I love this kind of photos very much Frank,when spring comes I will try some.May I ask something about this type of shots?Whenever I see a photo of a tree trunk in details,they usually don't look sharp,is it because of the complicated texture...you know there are so many lines and patterns next to each other..Are they in fact sharp but our eyes sense them unsharp because of the complicated texture?

Hi Binnur, To get a tree trunk sharp, you have to deal with the curve of the trunk unless you shoot it straight on which tends to be boring. In addition, the most interesting ones aren't smooth and this one has fungus protruding from the bark. It all comes down to depth of field and when you are this close, it usually exceeds the camera and lens capability. The solution is Focus Stacking.

In this case I took 9 shots, each with a slightly different focus point. I discarded one shot as it was totally out of focus and because they were taken hand-held, aligned them in Photoshop CS5 before stacking them.

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Frank,it is a difficult job but shooting is not easy anyway

Hi Binnur, To get a tree trunk sharp, you have to deal with the curve of the trunk unless you shoot it straight on which tends to be boring. In addition, the most interesting ones aren't smooth and this one has fungus protruding from the bark. It all comes down to depth of field and when you are this close, it usually exceeds the camera and lens capability. The solution is Focus Stacking.

In this case I took 9 shots, each with a slightly different focus point. I discarded one shot as it was totally out of focus and because they were taken hand-held, aligned them in Photoshop CS5 before stacking them.

[Wavelength]

I thought i would see some dog images...but it is totally different; i really liked this

[FrankMi]

Thank you John, George, Binnur, and Nandakumar for viewing and commenting.

Binnur, the more you play with these kind of images, the easier it becomes. The shooting is simply using manual focusing and starting at the first part that comes into focus, shoot and focus a little further in until the last part goes out of focus and you're done.

The processing in Photoshop is a couple of mouse clicks but there are other applications that can do the stack merge as well. In fact, as long as your post processing software can handle Layers and Masking, the stacking and merging can be done manually if you want to take the time to play with it.

Hope this helps!

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Frank,it helps a lot

Thank you John, George, Binnur, and Nandakumar for viewing and commenting.

Binnur, the more you play with these kind of images, the easier it becomes. The shooting is simply using manual focusing and starting at the first part that comes into focus, shoot and focus a little further in until the last part goes out of focus and you're done.

The processing in Photoshop is a couple of mouse clicks but there are other applications that can do the stack merge as well. In fact, as long as your post processing software can handle Layers and Masking, the stacking and merging can be done manually if you want to take the time to play with it.

Hope this helps!