Very fine shots, Mark, the focus stacked one best of all. You are fortunate indeed that your live subject sits still long enough to get 16 shots of it!
The "load images into multiple layers" trick also works with Lightroom and CS5, for anyone who cares. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Paul, and to everyone else who took a look. > > I did use Photoshop CS6 for the focus stacking - I finally learned about the > "Load Files Into Photoshop Layers" command in Bridge which makes stacking a > larger group of files much easier! > > Mark > > > On 6/22/2013 10:43 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Excellent work. in focus stacking, do you use the PhotoShop align and >> blend tools? Superb. >> >> Paul >> On Jun 22, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I visited a prime dragonfly location yesterday, but the cool temps, gusty >>> winds and overcast skies did not make for a high volume shoot. I got 3 nice >>> shots which are here: >>> >>> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=2 >>> >>> Permalink: >>> >>> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/june-odonata-2013 >>> >>> The last shot on the post - the Bluet Damselfly - is a departure for me >>> because it is a focus stacked composition of 16 separate shots. This was >>> compiled in Photoshop. The focus stacking tool there had seemed to be >>> useless to me because it was such a PITA to manually stack images as layers >>> in a single file - but I finally stumbled on a webpage that explains how >>> to use bridge to open multiple files and then make them just layers of one >>> file in Photoshop - ah, life is good. I can see doing more focus stacking in >>> the future - it worked pretty well in the field yesterday. >>> >>> C&C appreciated. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
