Ok, so I wanted to play around with focus bracketing. After watching a few videos and how to do layer alignment and layer blending in PS, my first attempt seemed to come out ok, but my second attempt did not work so well. In the first two images, the first is a single image (R5 with 85mm f/2 @ f5.6) with the focus on the front of the coin. The second image is a composite of several images shot using the built in focus bracketing and the aligned and stacked in PS.
However for the second set of images, I could NOT get the focus point to move off the first bottle using focus bracketing no matter what I did. The resulting image was made by taking a series of images and manually moving the focus point. (Im going to post the images in a reply to this post because I don't want this post moved to gallery).
Any ideas why, in the image of the bottles, I could not get the focus point to move off the first bottle when using focus bracketing?
Here are the images.
Single image, focus at front of coin
Several images taken with focus bracketing on the R5, then aligned and blended in PS
Line of bottles, single image w/ focus on first bottle
Series of 20 images, with focus point manually moved. Focus Bracketing in camera would not work
Perhaps lens or body set to manual focus?
Basil wrote:
Ok, so I wanted to play around with focus bracketing. After watching a few videos and how to do layer alignment and layer blending in PS, my first attempt seemed to come out ok, but my second attempt did not work so well. In the first two images, the first is a single image (R5 with 85mm f/2 @ f5.6) with the focus on the front of the coin. The second image is a composite of several images shot using the built in focus bracketing and the aligned and stacked in PS.
However for the second set of images, I could NOT get the focus point to move off the first bottle using focus bracketing no matter what I did. The resulting image was made by taking a series of images and manually moving the focus point. (Im going to post the images in a reply to this post because I don't want this post moved to gallery).
Any ideas why, in the image of the bottles, I could not get the focus point to move off the first bottle when using focus bracketing?
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Did you follow the steps on page 240 of your camera manual?
Orphoto wrote:
Perhaps lens or body set to manual focus?
I'll guess this is how it's done, not AF...
Orphoto wrote:
Perhaps lens or body set to manual focus?
No it was in AF. I made sure of that.
Images shot with focus bracketing using the camera tool (not manually focused) may only be editable using Canon DPP4.
Give Canon a call at 1-800-OK-CANON. You may need to register your camera first.
Jrhoffman75 wrote:
Images shot with focus bracketing using the camera tool (not manually focused) may only be editable using Canon DPP4.
Give Canon a call at 1-800-OK-CANON. You may need to register your camera first.
The first set of images (my coin) used the camera's focus bracketing and I aligned the images in Photoshop just fine.
Try a tilt-shift lens. you can do this in one shot.
Basil wrote:
The first set of images (my coin) used the camera's focus bracketing and I aligned the images in Photoshop just fine.
Can you identify what changed between them then? Were all camera settings the same?
Basil wrote:
Ok, so I wanted to play around with focus bracketing. After watching a few videos and how to do layer alignment and layer blending in PS, my first attempt seemed to come out ok, but my second attempt did not work so well. In the first two images, the first is a single image (R5 with 85mm f/2 @ f5.6) with the focus on the front of the coin. The second image is a composite of several images shot using the built in focus bracketing and the aligned and stacked in PS.
However for the second set of images, I could NOT get the focus point to move off the first bottle using focus bracketing no matter what I did. The resulting image was made by taking a series of images and manually moving the focus point. (Im going to post the images in a reply to this post because I don't want this post moved to gallery).
Any ideas why, in the image of the bottles, I could not get the focus point to move off the first bottle when using focus bracketing?
Ok, so I wanted to play around with focus bracketi... (
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Basil....
Did you give any thought to the fact that only select lens will work with "focus stacking"
Check the below link... Just a thought
Let me know if this helps
https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART177430Cheers
Goldstar56
George Veazey
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In the menu for focus bracketing you specify the number of exposures and the “spread” between them. This is trial and error, but for something like the coin, the spread would be small. For the bottles the spread would be greater, and if you included something very distant, the spread would be wider. You have to play with these settings.
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