On the line between our property and our neighbor is a beautiful Spirea bush. I'd say it's 10 feet in diameter and 8 feet tall. The flowers are small and white and easy to ignore. But like most macro photos, when looking at the images on a computer screen or in print, the details are incredible. Most of us never see this.
For this image I set the Panasonic GX80/85 for 10 focus bracket shots. My intention is usually to use the largest aperture which is F2.8 on this 60mm Olympus macro lens. But I see somehow I nudged it to F3.2. I combined the raw images in Photoshop which automatically aligned and stacked the 10 images into 1 tiff file.
Not much was done to tweak the resulting single tiff file. I did increase the exposure slider in Lightroom by about one stop, and I further brightened the whites by moving the highlights slider to +30. The texture slider was moved to +20. I left sharpening at default
I used the radial tool to provide a darkened vignette of the areas (the green background mostly) outside the blossoms.
After stacking and processing
"Spirea"
May 23, 2020
Panasonic GX80/85
Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro (120mm equivalent)
F3.2 - 1/640sec - AutoISO400
Stacked in Photoshop and further edited in Lightroom Classic