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Jeffrey's shooting star Dodecatheon jeffreyi,Geotagged,Jeffrey's shooting star,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Jeffrey's shooting star

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    These are so awesome! Posted 6 years ago
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      There were truly *millions* of them out there too... they are so small it's impossible to photograph it (all you see is a faint purple haze), but I passed several large wet meadows that were completely covered with these plants. Posted 6 years ago
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        Millions, wow that is so hard to imagine for me. To capture details of such large groups of plants, I'm thinking you need a new camera. Did you hear about that absurd new Fuji 100MP?
        https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1688357270/exclusive-hands-on-with-fujifilm-100mp-gfx-medium-format         Posted 6 years ago
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          That's pretty crazy. At $10,000 I don't think I'll be ordering one soon... and it's big. I'm kind of little so I like carrying my nice light 10oz camera body. I have been experimenting around with image stitching to get larger files. A 9 image stitch seems gets me around 50mp in the end Posted 6 years ago
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            Yes that one is over the top, even for me lol, but for a medium format sensor, it is actually relatively small and cheap.

            Image stitching can work really well indeed, I once created a 15 image stitch from hand:

            Epic mega panorama of Tarangire River, Tanzania This photo is quite special from a technical perspective. It consists of 15 x 36MP portrait images, stitched into a mega panorama. The resulting file was over 4GB, which is the TIF limit. I had to reduce the resolution to keep it workable, yet it still is 30,000 pixels wide, and in total about 200MP in size.<br /> <br /> What is cool about this photo is that it allows for a very deep zoom, and given the scene, there is a lot to discover. You'll find many species hidden in this scene if you zoom and pan around. Here's some instructions on how to get the most out of it:<br /> 1) Preferably, view this at the biggest screen you have<br /> 2) Be a member of JungleDragon, and be signed in<br /> 3) Click the photo to open it fullscreen<br /> 4) Click the little "eye" icon in the top right navigation and wait for the original to load<br /> 5) Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out, and drag to pan around<br /> <br /> Note that this may slow down or crash your browser.<br /> <br /> How about we make a game of this? Post the species names you find in this photo in the comments :) Africa,Panorama,Tanzania,Tarangire,Tarangire National Park

            If you use "load original" on that image, it may crash your browser at 200MP. If not, enjoy zooming in, there's dozens of animals to be found amidst several trees.             Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
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              The detail is absolutely incredible! The elephants in the river are astonishing. I can even see vultures in the sky.. I salute you for doing it all by hand so seamlessly too. Posted 6 years ago
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                Thanks, but the thing is that we should salute Photoshop. The actual taking of these photos was incredibly sloppy. Just 3 rows of 5 photos taken without much accuracy or direction. PS compensating all my errors really well. Posted 6 years ago

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The Jeffrey's shooting star

''Dodecatheon jeffreyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common names Sierra shooting star, Jeffrey's shooting star, and tall mountain shooting star. This wildflower is native to western North America from California to Alaska to Montana, where it grows in mountain meadows and streambanks. This is a thick-rooted perennial with long, slightly wrinkled leaves around the base. It erects slim, tall, hairy stems which are dark in color and are topped with inflorescences.. more

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Similar species: Ericales
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Uploaded Jun 7, 2019. Captured Jun 6, 2019 11:23 in Ingalls Way, Leavenworth, WA 98826, USA.
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  • X-E2
  • f/1.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO200
  • 55mm

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