Thanks Bruce! stan
On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I love those blueberries! That's a very attractive image, Stan. > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Stan Halpin > <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: >> Last month Mark C. shared his first experiments with focus stacking, using >> dragonflies as his subjects: >> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/blog6.php/2013/07/06/stack-focusing-dragonflies-in-the-field >> >> So I was in a photo workshop this last week, the instructor kept encouraging >> us to try focus stacking. I tend to be skeptical of "manipulation" >> techniques (e.g., HDR) but given Mark's results, I did shoot several series >> of images with focus stacking in mind. On arriving back home I >> purchased/downloaded Helicon Focus to process the images and see what I had >> captured. When I get time I will work on my other insect shots and re-do >> these two - at first glance they seem to have potential. Below is a link to >> the first quick attempts. Being a contrarian, I did not restrict myself to >> macros of insects for the experiments, and I think that the truck cab >> interior is the best of the bunch. With the beach shots, the variation in >> wave pattern from shot to shot caused some funny looking patterns when the >> images were merged, so I did not use all of the images I had in those series. >> >> Note that the original RAW images were "dumped" into Helicon as they came >> out of the camera - no color balancing, sharpening, etc. (There is a >> Lightroom plug-in that makes this process quite simple.) The images shown >> here are as they emerged from Helicon - I have not yet done any additional >> work on color-balance, etc. with the merged images. All of these shot on a >> tripod, all with natural light. >> >> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p684646393 >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> stan >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -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. -- 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.
