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1.5 - "Needs Work" 

The Dancing Aspens of Ophir Colorado are a popular destination for fall photographers in Southwestern CO. These trees were distorted when young by avalanches cascading down the mountain sides.

This is an focus stacked & stitched image shot with a Canon R5 using a Canon 300mm f/4.0 lens mounted on a Nodal Ninja M2 head. It was shot at f/11, 1/640th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 9724 images with all of the images being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 299 individual Focus Stacked images, 13 rows x 23 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation. Preprocessing was done using ACR. The focus stacking was done using Helicon Focus Pro. Stitching was done using PTGue and post processing was in Photoshop.

The original image is:

5.49 Giga-pixels
65,161 x 84,306 pixels
217" x 281" 300 PPI (18 ft. X 23 ft., 5in.) un-cropped image size

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The set of thee you posted are composed beautifully, just need a bit more in post to make them great.