Beautiful. And amazing. Cheers, frank
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 “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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.
