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Invitation for your examples of Focus Stacked images - please add your photo to this thread
May 14, 2014 15:42:08   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.

Racing Cheetah in Glass, focus stacked, 5 images blended in CS6
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May 14, 2014 15:59:28   #
MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY
 
I posted this topic today. http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-210527-1.html#3548188
Bob Yankle wrote:
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing ... (show quote)

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May 14, 2014 16:10:53   #
MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY
 
Very good result. How many shots or frames did you combine? Did you chang focus manually or using special software?
Bob Yankle wrote:
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing ... (show quote)

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May 14, 2014 16:20:00   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
MMC wrote:
Very good result. How many shots or frames did you combine? Did you chang focus manually or using special software?


5 shots, camera stabilized on a bean bag, changed focus manually using Live View with Canon 5D MK III, exported from LR5 to CS6 as stacked layers. I own Helicon Focus, but have not used it as CS6 handled the task just fine.

I have purchased a tripod macro-focus rail which I may use in the future. I also own Helicon Remote which will allow me to tether my Canon to my laptop, and let the software control the focus points (as many as I want to add), but it has not been exercised as of yet.

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May 14, 2014 17:44:56   #
MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY
 
2 days ago I was practicing with ControlMyNikon software. I took maybe 15 shots to receive final result with 1/15 sec; f/4.0; ISO 200.
Bob Yankle wrote:
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing ... (show quote)



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May 15, 2014 08:33:59   #
Bobbee
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing ... (show quote)


ControlMyNikon, 16 shots at 50 step. Nikon D800, 105 f4.5 macro. Used CS6 for the final processing. Used a small photobooth, 2 50W halogen lights left and right. Camera and tripod

Silver and Gold. Means so much more......
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May 15, 2014 09:03:34   #
rborud Loc: Minnesota
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing in that one blends together several photographs to get a final image that is an amalgam of all the others, but usually better than one image can provide. While HDR uses different light levels, focus stacking uses different focus points. It has many uses, from tack-sharp macro images to still-lifes and even landscape shots where the foreground, midground, background and horizon are all in sharp focus.

Please add your images to this thread, with a short comment as to why you selected focus stacking to capture your image. You need only post the final image, not the intermediary steps that got you there.

In my case, it works really well to capture glass figures.
Focus stacking is somewhat akin to HDR processing ... (show quote)


Bob
Here is a study in which I was looking into the throat of an Iris.
In other words trying to see a flower in an entirely different way. A 90mm macro, a stack, if I remember correctly, area of 10=12
RBorud


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Jun 1, 2014 18:53:00   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
Chambered Nautilus and an Auger shell


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