Focus Stacking the Hawthorne

Believe it or not, I have two more golden hour photos for youse or yiz guys. I have strayed from my morning blue hour photos once again. But I urge you not to fret as we will return to the blue hour theme in short order.

I have had this photo op in mind for sometime, and finally around got to it or A Round Tuit. The idea was to photograph the derelict Hawthorne Mill from the opposite riverbank. The other part of the concept was to use grasses as a foreground element. Well, the grassy field that I seen seen previously had been mowed, but I found some weeds to use instead. As they say, needs must.

With the foreground and mill so far apart, I would have to take two photos and focus blend them in photoshop. One version would focus on the foreground and the other on the distant factory. I took the best part of each photo to, hopefully, come up with the seamless result with everything in focus from front to back.

Mission Accomplished: I managed to work the technique, and the golden light plus the reflections make the photos good enough, despite the iffy foreground element, particularly in the first photo.

I finally got A Round Tuit, and here is one for you in case you need it.