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From 13 different focal lengths. In-camera processed JPEG on top, RAW-processed and focus-stacked image on bottom.
Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.
Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.
I just recently learned about focus stacking with macro photography! Just experimenting to see how it works.
I found this lovely Native Hydrangea growing in a ditch. This is photo was composited from 9 photos with different focal lengths.
For Trial1, I'm noticing Photoshop's blending has some issues around the white flower petals. It's creating blur where it shouldn't.
A little pandemic, stuck-at-home macro experiment. Mistakes were made. ;)
A piece of pumice from Mount St Helens.
My Sony A7RII with the Sony G 24-105mm F4 lens is mounted on an Edelkrone StandONE and FlexTILT Head 2 with the Quick Release One.
Lighting is my desk LED light plus two LItraTorches with diffusers mounted on a Platypod Max with the Platypod Goosenecks.
Initial processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
This image has a clusterf_ck story behind it. I was attempting a 15-shot focus stack while tethered and employing Helicon Remote software control, as I'd done on so many recent images, but couldn't get it to work. It took me a full day and many trials/errors before I discovered the problem. Plural: problems; and that's the really pernicious part. If you're just doing one thing wrong it's fairly easy to figure out, but when it's a combination of three things, stumbling onto the solution to any one, or even two, doesn't help - you need to solve all three simultaneously.
Then, part two: I was simultaneously attempting to shoot with different exposures so I could make an HDR of this scene, which has lots of deep shadows and some reflective highlights. But my middle set didn't work and there was so much time taken between my under-and over-exposed sets due to the other problem that the tangelos changed size, shape, or softness and settled about a twentieth of an inch between sets, making image alignment impossible. (I used the underexposed set.)
For fans of Helicon: I had adjusted two innocuous-seeming preference settings in the software, and had discovered and started using the auto-focus feature to save time defining far and near focus points. Both preference changes were fatal and you cannot use auto-focus on both back and front points, the second usage wipes away the memory of the first. The pref. settings (for those truly interested in the software) in v1.21 beta were "size of focusing steps" and "pause between focusing steps". Using a Nikon D300 I'd attempted to use "small" and something like a 25ms pause; had success when altered to "large" and 100ms.
Shot with D300 at f8 with AF-S 105mm Micro VR 2.8, SB-800 with diffuser right, SB-800 left with gobo to illumnate the white bristleboard background. There is an overhead halogen desk lamp providing ambient. This is a composite of 30 images, each with a slightly different focus. This was due to the fact that the flower is approximately 40mm in depth, and F8 has only slightly less that 2 mm of depth. The stacks were assembled in Zerene Stacker. TetherScript was used to capture the images for the focus stack.
Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.
Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.
This photo was my first attempt with the focus-stacking method. It combines seven photos with the Helicon Focus software.
Wide-band (6GHz) amplifier.
This is one chip on a carrier of about 100 chips. The chip shown is approximately 0.4mm x 0.6mm
One cool aspect of this image is that the person who provided the chip did not know what it 'really' looked like. He had specified that this and that be done in certain ways, but until he saw this image he didn't know if it existed in the way he designed it.
I used Zerene stacker to combine 22 images to provide the close to fully focused image. From top to bottom of the stack was a substantial difference!
My First Focus Stack
I rarely upload the full-sized image. This is an exception.
This was shot Camera RAW and Processed in PS5.
I slightly cropped the image but have uploaded it full-sized. If you go to the ORIGINAL size version you will see great detail (even the dust that I missed wiping off...)
Seven Images
Induro Tripod
Manfrotto 494 Head
Super-Multi-Coated MACRO-TAKUMAR 1:4/100mm
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/4 second, f/8.0 (EXIF is incorrect because I used a manual lens)
Processed in PS5 per instructions from Michael Besant (Focus Stacking )
17 images taken with 50D and MP-E 65mm at 5x using 0.06mm steps with a Cognisys Stackshot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/16 with diffusion gels.
Old shells on a beach? No - a clam and an abalone shell from vacations past on concrete block in the back yard. Rather than leave them trapped in a box in the basement, I decided to set them out and allow them to age naturally and gracefully. Every passing month reveals new details and inner structure. This is a 30+ shot focus stack processed in Helicon Focus and finished in Photoshop.
30er Stack mit Retro Adapter 24mm
Man beachte auch meine anderen Fotos dieser CPU, damit die Vergrößerung besser eingeschätzt werden kann.
Sunrise yesterday down at the beach in Largs, Scotland. The front of the lens was mere inches from the foreground rocks here so to maintain sharp focus to the background I shot each of my bracketed images at three different focal planes and put them together in CombineZM before running through DPHDR.
Taken on a Canon EOS 40D and Sigma 10-20mm lens.