DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Seven stacked botanical close-ups

Started Nov 29, 2016 | Discussions thread
ForumParentFirstPrevious
Flat view
gardenersassistant Veteran Member • Posts: 9,656
Seven stacked botanical close-ups
5

Following on from this thread , I have spent the past several days exploring focus stacking, capturing post-focus videos with my FZ330 and Canon 500D close-up lens, and processing them in Helicon Focus. I might do a thread at some point describing what I have learnt, but that would probably be rather long and dry, and probably of only limited interest. Instead I thought I would simply post some examples. I don't think any of these could have been captured with a single shot.

I did not note the exact numbers, but each of these images is a stack of somewhere between 10 and 40 or so video frames. The videos were captured hand-held. It was breezy. I did a bit of retouching in Helicon Focus for several of them before passing them on to Silkypix. After Silkypix, the first three had minor adjustments in Lightroom. After Lightroom, the first one had its background smoothed in Nik Dfine.

#1 ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/125 sec

#2 ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/60 sec

#3 ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/60 sec

#4 ISO200, f/2.8 1/100 sec

#5 ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/250 sec

#6 ISO 200, f2.8, 1/250 sec

#7 ISO 200, f/4, 1/320 sec

Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3)
If you believe there are incorrect tags, please send us this post using our feedback form.
ForumParentFirstPrevious
Flat view
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
ForumParentFirstPrevious
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow