Thanks for looking Jack. I think this process has some potential, and I happen to have an old focus rail in the closet . . .
stan On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > No's 5 & 6 clearly show the clean solid benefits of stacking. ! thru 4, not > so much. > Interesting process, thanks for showing, Stan. > > Jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <PDML@pdml.net> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:34 AM > Subject: Experimenting with focus stacking (truck, dragonfly, and beach > content) > > 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. > > -- > 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.
