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Guanajuato, Mexico after the sunset
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Club 66 upgrades
Club 66 installed some new lighting over the pool table this week in addition to a new air conditioning system. If you want to escape the heat this summer, this is the place to go. Open jam tonight since it is Tuesday.
Witchaven West Coast Tour 2014
Witchaven – California, Oregon, Washington Tour – Summer 2014
@Witchaven666 So this Witchaven tour begins today. I’m looking forward to next week’s show (7/2/14) at Club 66.
Varsity Theatre in the rain
Ashland’s Varsity Theatre during the 2014 Ashland Independent Film Festival
2014 Commencement @ SOU
Southern Oregon University professors
One week from today (6/14/14) will feature a scene similar to today’s photo (from last year’s graduation). Commencement will take place at Raider Stadium.
Immediately after the ceremony, the field will be torn up and replaced with a new football field and track facility. Next year I’ll finally be able to shoot SOU track. Southern Oregon University hasn’t had a home track and field event in many years.
Aerial view of Pilot Rock and Mount McLoughlin (obscured by clouds)
Pilot Rock from the vantage point of the pilot
Ashland High School Baseball heads into final, regular-season games
Eric Carlson dives for the ball @ Harry & David Field (5/15/14)
@ahs_baseball @eric9carlson @ADTsports
This photo sequence is somewhat symbolic of the AHS season. What started out so promising (14 wins in a row) has recently slipped down the left field line (3-4 in last 7 games). However, the season isn’t over. With a doubleheader sweep @ Eagle Point tomorrow (5/17/14), the Grizzlies should have one of the top seeds in the state championship tournament. A mere 6-game winning streak to end the season is what the Grizzlies really need.
Ashland goes for win number ten in a row today
North Mountain Park (Ashland, Oregon)
@ahs_baseball Ashland High School, currently ranked #1 in the state of Oregon at the 5A level and having defeated the previously #1 ranked 6A team, goes for their 10th straight victory against 6A Roseburg in Ashland today at 4:30. Even though Roseburg isn’t ranked in the Top 10 for 6A teams, beating any 6A team is not easy for a 5A school. This should be a good game.
My barber and my lunch spot
Left Coast Barber Shop and Sammich (Ashland, Oregon)
My first (not entirely successful) focus stack
This past weekend I was hiking on Upper Table Rock. The ground was covered with wildflowers and snow-covered Mt. McLoughlin looked splendid in the distance. So I took this photo of the wildflowers.
foreground focus
But I wanted a photo with Mount McLoughlin in focus so I took another one.
distant focus
When I got home I was a bit disappointed in each photo.
My photography and Photoshop skills are completely self taught. I have never taken a class, had a tutor/mentor, or even read a book on either subject. I’ve learned merely by trial and error with my camera and trying different things in Photoshop.
So what I wanted to do was combine the above two photos. I did so by using Photomerge (under File/Automate) in Photoshop and unchecking the “Blend Images Together” option. Hit F7 to see the layers if your layers box isn’t already open. Select both images, and use Auto-Blend Layers (under Edit) to stack the images. The result is below.
Photomerged focus stack
It’s not perfect, but now I have a new option at my fingertips in the future. Two things I need to do differently:
1) Take more than two photos. Notice how the finished result is out of focus in the middle. Had I taken three or four photos, each with a different focus point, the entire stacked photo could have been in focus.
2) Maintain the same, or nearly the same, composition (and camera settings–shutter speed, ISO, aperture). I recomposed the scene a bit after taking the first image which doesn’t make for the best stacking conditions later in post.
A more recent focus stack of a similar scene can now be found here.