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When I see this image, I see a separation line defining how weather directly influences geology. The tufa in the foreground would not exist without weathers involvement. I could not think of a name really so I just called it some common name that fits the mood. I was thinking “Forces of Creation”, or something cheesy, but decided on this cheesy name instead – LOL. This is a focus stack consisting of 6 photographs shot at f/11. The tufa in the foreground is actually about 200 yards from the shoreline, so I did not plan for needing more depth of field for the focus distance in the water right above the tufa, and the edge of the tufa itself. I should have shot at f/13 for those two captures, then brought it back down to f/11 for the remaining captures. The issue I ran into was there was a strong soft edge at the top of the tufa, so when focus stacking there was no way to have the water in focus right above the tufa. I had to do some serious cloning and touch up along that edge, it was a PITA. It is still not a composite; all captures were recorded in less than a minute. ;-) This photograph is NOT for sale in ANY medium, and is for display purposes only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is a self-portrait composite. This image is a focus stack consisting of 6 images for the landscape and sky, with the far focus distance for the sky and mountains being blended in during focus stacking. The 7th image is of the person reaching through the frame for the guitar. The location for this shoot was at Black Rock Desert, NV during a TMCC photography course field trip back in April 2015. Thanks, Pedro for firing the shutter! Thanks to Dean Burton, and the faculty at TMCC for taking the photography classes on this field trip, this image would not exist otherwise. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is a focus stack of eleven images. My camera was roughly 1.5 feet from the ground and around 7 inches from the tufa in the upper left corner of the frame. Initially this was going to be an exposure blend, with a 90 second exposure for the sky blended in with the stacked landscape, but the clouds looked much better in first fast exposure in the stack, so I just went with that. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
