Wirepass Edges

Happy New Year! Time to update the copyright.

This is an image from June 2012. Wirepass Canyon is a tributary of Buckskin Gulch. I tried to take this image a year earlier, but only used a 2-second mirror lock-up on my camera and had some definite camera shake. This time I used the 10-second lock-up and had much crisper images.

This image is a blend of 12 exposures for depth-of-field. It was taken at the 300-mm focal length of my lens and encompasses several feet of canyon wall. I like the way this telephoto view compresses the scene so that it becomes a composition of shapes and edges.

As always, your observations and suggestions would be valued.

5D2, 28-300 @ 300, ISO 400, f/16 1/4s

Mark: Helicon Focus was used for blending. It was somewhat disappointing in that it selected blurred pixels in some of the dark tones in several areas. I was able to paint in the dark details from the correctly focused exposure in the "pro" version, but it took some work. Guess the algorithm has an easier time picking out the focus on the lighter pixels, or maybe I need to adjust the settings.