Waterfall stacking: Can you leave your tripod and ND filter at home?

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Anders W
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Re: Waterfall stacking: Can you leave your tripod and ND filter at home?
In reply to richarddd, 4 months ago

richarddd wrote:

I prefer the blur in the 1 sec exposure. It's smoother.

Even though the total time for 16 shots at 9 fps would be longer than 1 second, I wonder if having more of a delay between the shots in the stacking case would have improved the blur. You could automate this using an anti-shock setting.

Yes, I know I can regulate the time between shots in the burst quite precisely with the anti-shock setting, but no, I don't think a longer delay would have yielded a a smoother effect. If anything the opposite. However, as I pointed out in my previous post, a slower shutter speed (which would have been possible with an ND filter but without a tripod) might well have generated a smoother look. I'll give that a try if I find the opportunity.

How did you process? Aligning is clear, but exactly how did you merge?

I used this, an advantage of which from my point of view is that it works as plug-in to LR. It does cost something but very little (a donation of minimally 2 GBP). It does take some time. I didn't clock it but we are talking minutes rather than seconds on my brand new and quite fast PC. It's quite conceivable that there are better options. If anyone has ideas about this, please speak out.

As DM points out in your prior thread, there are free versions of the utility I used that work stand-alone rather than as a plug-in to LR.

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