You've seen Bill's lovely flower; from me you get dead leaves. Bill did adjustments to his 16 images in Camera Raw and then sent them to Photoshop to merge layers. I sent my 10 images to Helicon Focus, then did adjustments on the output merged image. (Using LR4) Bill used a bellows and 100mm macro. I used the 35mm macro. Bill's subject had a clear three-dimensional quality to it. My subject probably has about the same depth but the gradations from near to far are a bit more subtle.
I used Liveview and focus peaking to do the successive image slices through the subject and I believe Bill did the same. So, what you see here is not in any sense a replication of Bill's work, but rather an independent totally different example of this focus stacking business. I uploaded 4 images: First, a 6016x4000 image downsized to 2400xwhatever. This is the full stack of 10 images. Full Stack: http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/e387e914 Next, the "best" single image from the series, same dimensions as above. Single image: http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/e3dba3814 Next a 1-to-1 crop of the stacked image: 1024x735 portion of full stack: http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/e2015d44d And then a 1311x1017 1-to-1 crop of the single image. 1311x1017 portion of single image: http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/e24f2cbe0 Note that once you've followed the first link, click on the image for a larger view. From there, a right-arrows takes you to the next, left-arow brings you back etc. so you can do comparisons more easily. Also note that I applied the same adjustments to the single image that I had previously arrived at for the stacked image. 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.
