Cream of the Crop - November 2019

[Joolz]

Here it is! Our 187th Cream of the Crop competition in our quest to find the very best pictures posted at UK420 every month.

 

Voting closes at midnight 31st of December

Below is the short list chosen by the uk420 staff from last months nominations, for you our community members to vote on as the best or most interesting picture uploaded.

All the pictures short listed will get a permanent place in the Cream Of The Crop forum in Members Budshots.

There are a few more choices this month as so many great photos were nominated it seemed a shame to leave any out

 

The Prize's for this months outright winner is this awesome prize from Intense Nutrients

 

For information about how to nominate your photos please click below

 

 

 

InTheSystem - Chocolate Mint OG

 

 

GreenVision - OGKZ


 

SubSpecies - Below: Is Green Gold Hash (left hash) compared to Affiedaze Hash (right hash)

 

 

 

Rampa Green - Smellyberry

 

 

 

Dr feelgood - blueberry cookies wax extract

 

 

 

OLaC - blunicorn

 

 

 

Exhale - Quick Critical+

 

 

 

seb88 - Northern Lights

 

 

 

Smokebelch - Seedism Milk 

 

 

trichomehi - orange bud

 

 

Leafneck - Ocean grown cookies

 

 

@InTheSystem @GreenVision @SubSpecies @Rampa Green @Dr feelgood @OLaC @Exhale @seb88 @Smokebelch @trichomehi @Leafneck

 

 

[seb88]

Wow! Thanks very much for the submission 

 

Some great photo's to choose from!

 

Good luck all!

[Exhale]

Thanks for choosing one of my pics! 

 

There's a lot of colour around this time of year but I absolutely love a nice bit of hash, lovely pic @SubSpecies, here have my vote!

[InTheSystem]

First time Cream of the crop for me, thanks a lot for the nomination

Some great photos by everyone to be fair.. My vote has to go to @OLaC - Quality pic and colours residing in those trichomes mate.

[GreenVision]

Thanks for the nomination @Joolz .

 

Almost 6 years of forgetting to mention a pic to you and I finally remembered  

[trichomehi]

First time for me too, tough competition it's @OLaCfor just for the quality of the shot, is it stacked?

[SYZYGY]

Whew, tough one this month... 

No denying the sheer quality of @OLaC's stacked masterpiece - so moody!

[SubSpecies]

Irie Bless who nominated my hash pic!! Thank you!! Really glad you like it, the buds are Affidaze by RGSC in the pic. Screen is 100 micron.

 

WOW iv just won last months Cream Of The Crop for Outdoor Blue Cheese too!! It's all happening

But please, don't let me win again though, not fair on the others But if  i do then i'll let the prize go to 2nd place, deal?

Respect UK420 Crew!!

SubS

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by SubSpecies

[shire]

Every photo this month is a cracker. Well done to all, happy days

 

I have to go for OLaC, absolutely stunning photo. I would have that one on my wall.

[OLaC]

Thanks so much for the nomination, well chuffed! Thanks for the kind words everyone who's commented on the pic, it's really appreciated. 

 

 it's a focus stack of 20 images if I remember  at 4.5x magnification taken a few days before the chop on week 11 flower.

Edited December 5, 2019 by OLaC

[Dr feelgood]

Wow some great pics. Olacs blunicorn is for sure the best pic here for me but in the systems is a very close second 

[SubSpecies]

@OLaC eveyday we see some amazing bud shots, but its not everyday we see such beautiful explicit detail as this. Clever photography, stacking you say? interesting technique, just lernt about it, thats how you got such clean clarity with your pic right? Good stuff & good luck bro!

Respect to all entries, sooo hard to choose!!Everyone at least deserves a big smoke!!
 

Well done everyone 

Edited December 6, 2019 by SubSpecies

[OLaC]

13 minutes ago, SubSpecies said:

@OLaC eveyday we see some amazing bud shots, but its not everyday we see such beautiful explicit detail as this. Clever photography, stacking you say? interesting technique, just lernt about it, thats how you got such clean clarity with your pic right? Good stuff & good luck bro!

Respect to all entries, sooo hard to choose!!Everyone at least deserves a big smoke!!
 

Well done everyone 

 

 

Thanks mate, loving the crazy calyxus on your entry this month! Wild!

 

Focus Stacking is a bit of an elaborate technique but really useful when tackling the razor thin plane of focus your dealing with at those magnifications. The camera and lens are mounted on a focus rail.

 

You take a shot, move the camera and lens down the rail ever so slightly and take another shot and repeat until everything you want is in focus, then stack those shots in Photoshop or dedicated stacking software.

 

If anyone wants to try the technique (and has Photoshop) it doesn't have to be that elaborate.

 

If you have adequate light, put on your macro lens, set to burst mode, then try leaning forward slightly whilst pressing the shutter. 

 

It takes some practice but if I'm shooting macro in the field it's what I do as usually the subjects long gone before I can setup the rail and tripod lol. You only need 3-5 shots to make it work.

 

Import all photos to Photoshop  as layers then highlight them all.

Edit > align all images

Edit > stack images (choose focus stacking)

Then wait. (Can't take a while depending on amount of images, age of computer. Etc).

 

[SubSpecies]

Nice, sounds great, and quite easy, will def give it try. Iv got a GTX1080Ti Ryzen watercooled PC... couple of seconds job should be done Thanks OLaC, peace brother  One Love

[Guest]

Wow

yes guys. Made my Friday that has. Proper Friday feeling at work. Wahooo