This thing bloomed for the first time this week. This is my feeble attempt are a focus merge of 13 RAW pics using Affinity Photo's focus merge function.
Panasonic GX8
Olymupus 60mm f2.8
This thing bloomed for the first time this week. This is my feeble attempt are a focus merge of 13 RAW pics using Affinity Photo's focus merge function.
Panasonic GX8
Olymupus 60mm f2.8
opening the image in a new tab gets you the bigger image, looks really good! Have not tried that function yet. hmmm. I tend to get lost in the blur, but this has a great mix.
Wait, WHAT?! Ace, that looks surreal and gorgeous. Okay, I'm gonna try focus stacking a bird of paradise flower we have in our front yard tonight. Andy tells me my Nikon does auto focus stacking somehow.
Here's the lame iPhone portrait-mode shot I just took of the subject. We'll see how the focus-stacked version compares tonight.
Alright. Here's one stacked from the side
using different f-stop to get the focus points?
I set the camera on manual and refocused on each shot. The second picture was a stack of a dozen shots.
Huh. The weather got cloudy but I went into the front yard and took a photo of this rose at f/16. I didn't do any adjustments.
Then I set my camera to auto acquire images in focus stack mode and shot 9 frames at f/4. I used Photoshop to then to take those 9 frames and blend them together to one focus-stacked image. I have never done this before.
The big difference seems to be the background is more out of focus with the focus-stacked image. It's a little darker, but that's just my manual exposure setting not being quite the same.
What do you think?
Then I did another experiment. I shot these flowers at f/16. They're spaced much deeper so not possible to get them all in focus without focus stacking.
Then I let the camera do it's thing for 10 frames and combined them, also at f/16. I didn't think this would work because the wind was blowing them back and forth.
Which shot do you prefer?
Then I went to the bird of paradise. This is what it looks like at f/4:
f/16:
Focus-stacked after being shot at f/4 (7 frames). What do you think?
I like a little bokeh.
Nice. I'm with Ian about the bokeh. In pics shot at f16, the background is a bit distracting. The subject detail on the stacked photos are as good as the f16 shots without the background. In Affinity Photo you can take the stack and select a preferred frame to be the primary source for a section of the final image. I'm thinking PS or LR does the same thing. If you have a final image that has too much detail, you can paint the area with the selected out-of-focus frame. Works great.
BUT, those were done in camera. I really like that.
This is so cool. I understand almost none of it. Where can a noob learn??
the first flower faded. The other two emerged.
Hahaha, okay, fair enough. 😁Boarding a plane to NY, surely I'll be able to find something there to focus stack manually.