Very attractive, Stan. Turned out beautifully with great detail.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [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.

