{"id":14371,"date":"2015-09-21T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2015-09-21T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:34:55","slug":"dr-hueys-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/dr-hueys-last-hurrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Huey&#8217;s last hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115-Dr-Huey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115-Dr-Huey-640x563.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Huey\" width=\"640\" height=\"563\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115-Dr-Huey-640x563.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115-Dr-Huey-1024x900.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115-Dr-Huey-624x548.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the trial version of <a href=\"http:\/\/zerenesystems.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zerene Stacker<\/a>. The picture above of Dr. Huey, the most common rose in cultivation, ((Dr. Huey is frequently used as a rootstock for garden roses. Often suckers from the vigorous rootstock overwhelm the grafted variety and take over, producing a tremendous display of red in late spring. Dr. Huey rarely reblooms, though. This is the only year I&#8217;ve seen it in flower during later months.)) was assembled from 63 slices, each at f\/5.6. Z Stacker works pretty well, but the final image tends to be grainy, and there are often some thread-like artifacts. I cleaned most of them up, but you can find a couple near the right edge of the picture in the full-sized version. (Click to embiggen.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115Cenchrus-longispinus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115Cenchrus-longispinus-640x394.jpg\" alt=\"Cenchrus longispinus\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115Cenchrus-longispinus-640x394.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115Cenchrus-longispinus-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092115Cenchrus-longispinus-624x384.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These <em>Cenchrus longispinus<\/em> burrs were collected from my socks. The image was compiled from 22 slices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091215-Patrinia-scabiosifolia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091215-Patrinia-scabiosifolia-640x606.jpg\" alt=\"Patrinia scabiosifolia\" width=\"640\" height=\"606\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091215-Patrinia-scabiosifolia-640x606.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091215-Patrinia-scabiosifolia-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/091215-Patrinia-scabiosifolia-624x591.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s easy to take the series of frames for image stacking in an indoor studio, in the field it&#8217;s not so easy. This picture of <em>Patrinia scabiosifolia<\/em>, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urasenke.org\/flowers\/autumn.php\" target=\"_blank\">seven flowers of autumn<\/a>, was made from three exposures. I could have used one more to get the entire inflorescence in focus, but the wind was starting to rise and I did well to get three useable frames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the trial version of Zerene Stacker. The picture above of Dr. Huey, the most common rose in cultivation, ((Dr. Huey is frequently used as a rootstock for garden roses. Often suckers from the vigorous rootstock overwhelm the grafted variety and take over, producing a tremendous display of red in late spring. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/dr-hueys-last-hurrah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Huey&#8217;s last hurrah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3JN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14406,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}