Nice cake, Bruce. What was your working distance on this one? ... And the PDML enablement gremlins has charged again. While Bruce wrote the below, I was out buying this: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554343-REG/Manfrotto_454_454_Micrometric_Positioning_Sliding.html
Though not at B&H... :-) Jostein 2011/4/20 Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: > Here's a cake "landscape" :-) that I focus-stacked (in an attempt) to get > complete front-to-back focus ... > > http://goo.gl/YBbBg > > This was done from 3 shots through a DA* 50-135 @ 135 at f/8 on my K20D. > The cake was lit with an AF-540FGZ on wireless in an 18" softbox. (I used a > 2nd 540 to blow out the wall behind the cake.) > > Despite being f/8, the DoF was only about 25% of the depth of the cake. I > manually focused to three planes: front, middle and rear. In hindsight I > should have done 4 or 5 shots as you can see that the surface between the > middle and rear is in soft focus. > > These shots were pulled into PS as one image with 3 layers. I ran Auto-Align > Layers then Auto-Blend Layers to get the most in-focus parts of each layer. > > Auto-Align Layers takes care of the slight differences in size due to focus > breathing, etc. Luckily the DA* 50-135 doesn't seem to suffer much from > that. > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
