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I photographed this Heartleaf Hibiscus at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center<\/a> a few minutes after I photographed the Wild Poinsettia<\/a> that I posted last week. As I mentioned in that post, I went out to the Center with a friend to work on my manual focusing rail skills. The calm winds and overcast skies were ideal for the manual outdoor photo stacking technique. This photograph is one of my best technical results so the practice does help. It was also helpful to have someone assisting. I found it hard to keep track of the number of turns on the rail (4.5 turns per image) and the number of images captured (17 in this case). We also discussed composition and teamed up on how to best frame the image.<\/p>\n

The Heartleaf Hibiscus<\/a> (Hibiscus \u0016martianus, aka Tulipan del Monte or Heartleaf Rosemallow) is a beautiful crimson flower that begins blooming\u00a0in the early summer and does so until late fall. The plant is native to central and southern\u00a0Texas. This particular specimen had multiple blooms occurring on\u00a0the same plant. You can see that the one in the foreground is about to open while the one in the background is on full display. Although the plant was wet there were no significant raindrops to make it an even more attractive subject.<\/p>\n

\"Heartleaf<\/a>
Heartleaf Hibiscus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This image was taken with my\u00a0Canon EOS 5D Mark III<\/a>\u00a0using my\u00a0Canon EF 100mm f\/2.8 Macro Lens<\/a>. The camera was set on Manual mode\u00a0with the aperture set at f\/8, shutter speed at 1\/100th of a second and the ISO set at 800. I did not use a flash to light the subject. I used the\u00a0Kirk FR-2 Focusing Rail<\/a>\u00a0to capture 17 images, I brought\u00a0them together using Helicon Focus (Method C – Pyramid). I used Lightroom, Photoshop and Nik Color Efex Pro to finalize the image.<\/p>\n

You can see the profile for this plant by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>. \u00a0Please use the section below to post your comments, questions or\u00a0suggestions.<\/p>\n

\"T.
\n<\/a>\u00a9 2016 T. Kahler Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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