FrameStacking


I'm continually amazed at how Alan's program can produce...
fantastic images from these frames.
This is a 19 frame stack of some lichen on a thin twig at...
an 18 inch branch. There is a basic problem of wind and...
when shooting in the wild as compared to a home 'studio'...
prepare these shoots by working out the minimum and...
distances and then slowly changing focus as I keep my...
button. I tend to do at least 2 or 3 takes of multiple...
costs nothing these days) in the hope that one will be...
If I use a monopod, instead of a tripod, then I keep the...
constant and move the camera slowly forward.
This stack was rejected because of the basic composition,...
on the right and the little bit of pooh (whose?) on the...
shots were taken at 1/250", f/6.3 ISO 200 105mm macro at...
magnification. Notice how the image moves about, but...
cope with that, bring them all into line during the first...
DoStack(). I always hit the letter 'A' afterwards before...
The depthmap shows which pixels to use from which frames...
the final image - sometimes this is a picture in it's own...
Hope this has inspired you to get out and take shots...
absolutely impossible in the (good) old film days.
Finally I applied a bit of basic post-processing to the...
Here is the output report from CombineZ.
Sometimes CombineZ will leave halos, especially if the...
is large and parts become very fuzzy and out of focus -...
about shots of groups of mushrooms, with their stalks,...
of 8 inches plus. Although CombineZ includes the...
this with hand painting, I've never really got on with...
depthmap, and place them as layers. I find editing in...

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