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Stacking focus @ maginification 6x - 133 image
Gear: Mituyoto 5x + 160mm tube (FD Canon) 210 rodenstock f/9 + 7D Canon + Flash with diffuser DIY
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Golden afternoon light hits Stack Island off the coast at Minnamurra, NSW, Australia
A detail of a stack of boats down at the Lake Mendota lake shore. It will take a while until they can flash their colors on the lake again.
You might want to take a close-up photo of something, but if you focus the camera on the closest part of the subject, you’ll find that the background is out of focus. If you focus on the background, the foreground becomes blurred. You could stop down on the lens, which increases the depth of field, but even so the image might not be entirely sharp.
The solution to this problem is called focus stacking. It works by taking a series of images, each focused on a different part of the scene, and combining them using software that creates a final image using the in-focus parts of each image in the stack. To make the stack, one typically puts the camera on a tripod and focuses on the closest part and presses the shutter. Then one carefully focuses back a bit and takes another shot, continuing until the final shot has the farthest parts of the scene in focus.
This is tedious work, and one risks moving the camera a bit while focusing.
Some cameras are starting to have built-in focus stacking capability. You just set the camera on the tripod and focus on the front, then press the button and the camera takes as many images as necessary while shifting the focus back.
The Nikon Z7 has focus stacking capability, what Nikon calls “focus shift shooting”. You set a few parameters and start the process. After a few seconds you have a stack of images that you can process with third party software to make what hopefully will be a final image that is sharp everywhere. I tried it out using a vase of roses set on the counter. The camera made 26 images, which I imported into Photoshop layers and used auto-blending to compose the final image, which you see here. It’s mostly pretty good. If you blow it up, it looks like everything is sharp. But, on closer inspection, you can see that the area between the vase and flowers on the right, where a couple of stems and leaves are, is blurred.
So I tried a popular third-party app, Helicon Focus. But it also failed to render this part of the image sharply. Then I looked through the stack and found that there was indeed an image where the area was in focus. This area was the backsplash on the bar, which consists of random streaks in the granite with soft edges, like what you can see on the bar in the foreground. I guess that the software failed to find convincing edges in this area (and didn’t have much area to work with), so it didn’t fill in that part of the final image and used some other image for that part.
I tried filling it in by hand using the sharp image in the stack. Even an area this small takes a steady hand and several minutes, and even then I was not completely successful. I gained a lot of respect for the software while doing this.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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Between Ash Street and Brighton Park crossings in Chicago, NS 3515, an ex-BN SD40-2, leads NS 3445 and NS SD60E 6944 with a Global I - 47th Street stack transfer run, moving southward and crossing over from CSX's B&OCT onto former Chicago Junction (NYC, Conrail) rails. Number 3445 is one of a couple dozen rebuilt by Conrail from straight-SD40s; this group is currently being traded to CSX for their SD80MACs. The Adlai Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and CSX's bridges over the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal are visible in the distance.
Another Anemone picture taken at the CBG. I wanted sharpness all through this flower, but not in the background. So I decided to try focus stacking. Fortunately this was inside, so no problem with wind. This is just two pictures merged. One picture was taken focusing on the petals and the other on the stamen.
I then used PSE, layering the two images and selctively merged the layers. It seems like a valid technique. May have to try this again with something that has greater depth than this Anemone.
Our daily Challenge ~ Pile/stack is the topic for Monday 25th June 2012
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Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/ for the added textures (aged photo & OlWest)
Taken in St. Clair at Atlantic Track & Turnaround Co.
This circular brick wall is the same size as the top of the Anaconda Stack. The walkway I'm on is the size of the base of the stack.
Welsh Coast - Pembrokeshire
Stack rocks. Formed from two massive pillars of limestone standing freely a short distance from the cliffs off the Pembrokeshire coast.
Chamonix 045N-2 4x5 Camera
Fujinon SW 90mm F8
Kodak Portra 400
Tetenal C41 home processed
Epson V700 Scan.
Westbound on track 1, a Union Pacific double stack marches over Sherman Hill at Dale, Wyoming, on September 17, 2008.
a high priority northbound stack train passes a southbound train made up of empty autoracks at ballico, CA
Fousc stacked fly made of 29 shots. Lightroom and Photoshop used to process. Photos taken on a Canon 40d and a Raspberry Pi python script controlling a linear rail using a stepper motor
Some thick encyclopedias stacked together on top of each other against a very intense red background. The books have different sizes and most of them have black hardcovers. They are casting a soft shadow behind them.
I like the stumbling, falling-yet-failed stacked-image effect, oddly enough. A mixed assortment from my garden.
Vintage postcard.
American actor Robert Stack (1919-2003) became a star as Deanne Durbin's young lover in Henry Koster's First love (1939). After the war, he had massive success with Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the Wind (1956) for which he was nominated for the Oscar. Internationally, he became famous as Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables (1959-1963).
Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, in 1919. His first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father, a professional soldier Robert was the grandson of Marina Perrini, an opera singer at the Scala theatre in Milan. When little Robert was five, his father was transferred to the US embassy in France. Robert went to school in Paris and learnt French rather than his mother tongue. At 11, he returned to America, and at 13, he became a top athlete. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy, and at age 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He played polo, saxophone and clarinet at Southern California University. A broken wrist ended his career as a sports athlete. He took drama classes and made his stage debut at 20. He joined Universal Studios in 1939. In his first film, he starred as Deanne Durbin's young lover in First love (Henry Koster, 1939). He gave the teenage film star her first on-screen kiss. Around this "event," Universal producer Joe Pasternak provided a lot of publicity. Stack established himself as an actor and the following year he appeared as a young Nazi in The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) alongside Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. Stack was reunited with Durbin in Pasternak's musical Nice Girl? (William A. Seiter, 1941). In 1942 he appeared as a Polish Air Force pilot in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their acting abilities to fool the occupying troops. The film has become recognised as a comedy classic. Stack played another pilot in Eagle Squadron (Arthur Lubin, 1942), a huge hit. Then Stack's career was interrupted by military service. He did duty as a gunnery instructor in the United States Navy during World War II.
After World War II, Robert Stack continued his career. He returned to the screen with roles in films such as Fighter Squadron (Raoul Walsh, 1948) with Edmond O'Brien and A Date with Judy (Richard Thorpe, 1948) with Elizabeth Taylor. In 1952 Stack starred in Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler, 1952), the first major film production in 3D. He played the second leading role alongside John Wayne in William A. Wellman's aviation drama It's Always Day (1954). Sam Fuller cast him in the lead of House of Bamboo (1955), shot in Japan. Stack enjoyed one of his greatest successes with Douglas Sirk's drama Written in the Wind (1956). He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley. From the late 1950s Stack turned increasingly to television. Internationally, Robert became famous with his role in the television series The Untouchables in which he starred as the clean-cut Chicago police officer Eliot Ness during the Prohibition era. Around 120 episodes were made between 1959 and 1963. Other leading roles followed for Stack in the television series The Name of the Game (1968-1971), Most Wanted (1976) and Strike Force (1981). The multilingual Stack also took the lead role in the German-language film Die Hölle von Macao/The Hell of Macau (James Hill, 1966) alongside Elke Sommer, and he also appeared in French- or Italian-language productions. With advancing age, Stack also frequently took on deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona in films such as 1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980) or Caddyshack II (Allan Arkush, 1988). Between 1987 and 2002 he was the host of the television series Unsolved Mysteries, which was dedicated to mysterious murder cases. He worked as an actor until his death. In 1956 he married actress Rosemarie Bowe (1932-2019), to whom he was married until the end of his life. The couple had two children. Robert Stack died of pneumonia in 2003 in Beverly Hills at the age of 84 and was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Stack of 53 pictures at 100 microns steps.
Basic setup at 4x with stacked 100mm and reversed 28mm at f8.
More info about the setup at youtu.be/G3u-7lwRyY8
This is my first attempt at focus stacking so there are a few inconsistencies in the focus but otherwise it's a great picture!
I occasionally go back to edit photos that I have taken in the past; this was from November 2012. This composite image used a photo stacking (or layering) technique in Photoshop. I call it cloud stacking. I used thirty images where only the clouds were in motion during two and a half minutes. Just after sunset, the bottom of the clouds were lit by a break in the clouds at the horizon. These thirty images were selected from the total sequence of 300.