> On Apr 10, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > One this trip (last Monday) I forgot my tripod so I hand held these, mostly > on TAV mode. I kept the lens fairly wide open and tried to move in slowly on > the flowers to stack focus them later. All of those posted are focus stacks > to some degree or another, though I found the jsut 4 or 5 images is often > enough to cover the range of DOF. Hand holding steadily enough was a > challenge and I basically laid down on the ground and tried to really wedge > my elbows into the earth for stability. I made lots of of runs at each plant > so if one stack did not work I could try another - shot 1550 images in less > than an hour.
Thanks, Mark. Very helpful. I’m impressed with your dedication. I think I’ve shot a lot of images when I’ve shot a few hundred. I would have assumed that stack focusing would require each image to near-identical to the rest—same settings, same camera position, same framing, etc., etc. Am I mistaken? When you talk about “moving in” to “cover the depth of field,” it sounds like I am. I’m amazed that you were able to do that hand-held. Do you do stack focusing in Lightroom or is that a Photoshop-only technique? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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.
