Stacked flower using Control my Nikon
Mar 20, 2017 13:55:17 #
I just did this quickly with 20 slices (should have gone to 30) Came out reasonably well. d7200 using a fixed led light.
Mar 20, 2017 17:31:42 #
Forgot to mention that I put it together using Focus Project. Used a Sigma 180mm macro lens.
Mar 21, 2017 10:05:53 #
Mar 21, 2017 10:10:33 #
blacks2 wrote:
Beautiful, love the color.
Thanks, I didn't retouch this at all it was more of an experiment on the software. I hadn't used Focus Project 3 before and I wanted to test it out. It worked really well and very fast.
Mar 21, 2017 11:17:34 #
WayneT wrote:
I just did this quickly with 20 slices (should have gone to 30) Came out reasonably well. d7200 using a fixed led light.
WayneT,
The bouquet appears to be an indoor capture with stationary lighting and a tripod for the camera. Your twenty slices might have been reduced and a deeper range of focus if the aperture had bee up around f/22. Because of the above mentioned set-up you wouldn't care how slowly the shutter speed would be to get a great exposure throughout the 10 - 15 sequential shots.
I cannot comment on your 'focus stacking' software; I use CZM to merge my stacks. http://combinezm.en.lo4d.com/
Michael G
Mar 21, 2017 11:26:42 #
Armadillo wrote:
WayneT, br br The bouquet appears to be an indoor... (show quote)
You are correct Michael I had it on f4.5 at 60th of a second. I was trying to maintain ISO 100 under a small stationary LED light. I have a strobe and speed lights but I don't like using them when I do stacks. The flower is a weed I found in my back yard and it's only about 3 inches across.
Mar 21, 2017 12:50:21 #
WayneT wrote:
Forgot to mention that I put it together using Focus Project. Used a Sigma 180mm macro lens.
So how come you did not get everything in focus?
Mar 21, 2017 12:57:40 #
WayneT wrote:
You are correct Michael I had it on f4.5 at 60th of a second. I was trying to maintain ISO 100 under a small stationary LED light. I have a strobe and speed lights but I don't like using them when I do stacks. The flower is a weed I found in my back yard and it's only about 3 inches across.
Wayne,
You can maintain the same set-up, except increase the Aperture to a much larger value, allow the shutter to control the exposure. The LED light source is okay, if you look around the hardware stores they sometimes have the handheld work lights with 24 lamps on one side and three lamps at the nose. You can experiment with lighting effects and shadows all while capture exposures for a focus stack.
The LED work lamps put here were only $2.99 each at Harbor Freight.
Michael G
Mar 21, 2017 13:37:02 #
speters wrote:
So how come you did not get everything in focus?
I didn't do enough stacks. Should have gone to 30 stacks with the setup I had.
Mar 22, 2017 17:18:18 #
WayneT wrote:
I didn't do enough stacks. Should have gone to 30 stacks with the setup I had.
You can certainly use smaller increments that way, but the number of stacks could be even fewer.
Mar 25, 2017 21:43:48 #
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