Pat, you'll like this :)

[rickztahone]

Focus Stacking!

Don't know what it is? Check out this cool video that goes through the process of doing macro focus stacking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYA7...ature=youtu.be

If you do not follow Phlearn, you should subscribe. Some great tips on that channel. Enjoy!

[Discus-n00b]

I've tried my hand at this with coral. I like it, and it works well when you do it right. Problem is stuff that moves (Coral polyps), even with the breeze then it can get tricky stacking.

This is an example of a photo you would like to stack. See the blurry branches out in front as well as shooting off in the background? With focus stacking you could eliminate that and get it all in focus in one image.


Here are the few I did. Obviously was my first time doing it and I missed a few focus points, but overall not much of the frags are blurry where normally they would be. Cool thing is, if I didn't tell you, you probably would of never known.

[rickztahone]

Great examples Matt! I haven't stacked in quite a while. Last time I tried I think it was on a dead fly. I can't find that file anywhere though

[Second Hand Pat]

I knew what it was just from the title. So you would need a perfect set of images on the same thing with different levels of focus without anything in the stack moving. Right. Sounds very cool but seems like you would need a set of controlled conditions of the actual picture taking...ie no wind.
Pat

[rickztahone]

I knew what it was just from the title. So you would need a perfect set of images on the same thing with different levels of focus without anything in the stack moving. Right. Sounds very cool but seems like you would need a set of controlled conditions of the actual picture taking...ie no wind.
Pat

correct. Static subject are the best options here.

[SteveCA]

I've seen some pretty amazing examples of focus stacking in landscape photos. I first saw it in Marc Adamus' work like these:

http://www.marcadamus.com/photo/under-the-lights/

http://www.marcadamus.com/photo/lightcatchers/

[Second Hand Pat]

I've seen some pretty amazing examples of focus stacking in landscape photos. I first saw it in Marc Adamus' work like these:

http://www.marcadamus.com/photo/under-the-lights/

http://www.marcadamus.com/photo/lightcatchers/

Love the photo in the second link Thanks Steve for sharing that.
Pat

[Discus-n00b]

Those are great. I guess it's sort of focus stacking but mainly just stacking or bracketing but I see a lot of people shoot the sky, then the foreground, then whatever else and stack them all together for a nicely exposed image where everything has detail. I find actual focus stacking more useful in macro photography than anything else.