During my hikes around Snowball Hill Prairie, I ran across a couple of Michigan Lilies (Lilium michiganense) that had just begun blooming! This was a new wildflower for me, one I had not seen before. Quite a lovely find in the middle of a prairie! Here are a couple of images I captured:
After capturing a few images, I captured a series of 12 images for focus-stacking:
This beautiful wildflower grows from 3-feet to 8-feet tall. The ones I found were about 3-feet … what a sight seeing 8-foot tall bright orange/red wildflowers would have been! This wildflower likes moister areas of the prairie … I found them on the downhill side of the hilltop prairie, where they can gather more rainwater when the rains run down the hillside.
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 body
- Canon EF 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3221 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/11 and f/16
- Shutter 1/80 sec. and 1/100 sec.
Focus-stacked image:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 body
- Canon EF 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3221 tripod with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture 3.5
- Shutter 1/2000 sec.
- 12 images captured, varying the focus point on the wildflower/images were stacked using Helicon Focus software