An Early 20th Century Grave Marker

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In Sioux Falls, South Dakota's St. Michael's Cemetery lies a poignant reminder of life cut short: a grave marker fashioned from an early dying sapling, overgrown with ferns at its base and crowned with a dove nest containing stillborn chicks that embody unrealized potential.\n\nPhotography skills come into play as the camera is treated to a high-definition photo shoot where Agisoft Photoscan Pro software processes around 34 raw photographs exported in full-color and vivid quality from Adobe Lightroom version five dot five point five after optimizing exposure and depth, brightness, sharpness and overall clarity before saving each image in sixteen-bit tiff format with alpha masks for added nuance, color fidelity, depth map detail then transferring this data into the powerful Agisoft software package, carefully refining each mask layer within its boundaries as per precise measurement calculations which result from analyzing a vast dataset. Following precision photo reconstruction and surface rendering utilizing computer aided modeling methodologies Photoscan Pro exports resulting output - including photorealistic high definition three-dimensional representation model in .ply file format and image-based color information ( texture ) also represented within an accompanying raster based bitmap map (.jpg, or more appropriately, as used here in 16 bit format.)