Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gallocresta (Salvia pratensis), Hartelholz, Múnich, Alemania, 2020-06-20, DD 38-61 FS.jpg

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Info Extreme macro view (and focus stacked of 24 images) of the flower of a meadow clary (Salvia pratensis), Hartelholz, Munich, Germany. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 08:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 08:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow --Co mmon ists 10:17, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Another sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. - Benh (talk) 18:19, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support Stunning. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 12:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Needs a lot of work to remove focus-stacking errors, expecially around periphery. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:37, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Diego, following our discussion on lighting setups and effective aperture, here our a few additional suggestions you may find useful:

Helicon Focus often struggles with pre-processed raw images, particularly those that have been sharpened and denoised. Best to do only minor adjustments before the stacking (e.g. white balance, exposure matching) and apply the remaining edits to the stacked image
Helicon's parameters (method A/B/C, radius and smoothing) have a dramatic effect on quality. There's no sure recipe that applies to all kinds of images, so best to play around with the settings (the batch function is great for this, as you can leave the computer running a bunch of combinations overnight). Personally, I usually get the best results with methods B/C, radius < 5 and smoothing = 1 (these settings maximise sharpness often at the expense of halos and artificats, which need to be cleaned up afterwards)
The wavy path of the dust particles on the top right corner suggest a non-linear path of the focus rail. If you're using a manual rail this is usually due to backlash (slack caused by the manufacturing tolerance between the leadscrew and the carriage nut): to minimise it, never reverse the direction of the focus knob during the stack

-- Julesvernex2 (talk) 18:25, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Julesvernex2: thanks for your detail feedback. I go point by point: 1) I've never come to the idea of processing frames before merging them; 2) I'm aware of the difference in the outcome to you get playing around with those paramenters, thanks for sharing your preferences; 3) good point, I didn't see that. I don't usually go back and forth with the slide but it looks indeed strange. I shouldn't have this kind of issues in the future as I god a motorised slide now. Thank you. Poco a poco (talk) 10:48, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Blurred even in smaller size, poor framing. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 06:52, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As usual providing constructive feedback here --Poco a poco (talk) 10:48, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas, Diego! Who am I to assist the undisputed FP champion? I know nothing about focus stacking... -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:02, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Crazy guy, merry Christmas, @Alvesgaspar! Poco a poco (talk) 17:45, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw my nomination Ok, will work on this later or redo it, not sure Poco a poco (talk) 10:48, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Poco a poco (talk) 10:48, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]