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I shot a few lotus pods a while back and I kept them. I finally took receipt of my D850 so I decided to have another go and revisit one of the shots from earlier. I figured it would be interesting to have the same subject fresh and then dried out. Also, it was a difficult shot to get in the original shoot because of the challenging depth of field issues so I figured it would be a nice test of the new camera's focus stacking capability. Needless to say the focus stacking worked really well and the results were pretty awesome (tons easier than trying to do bracket the focus by hand). Here's the result:
https://a4.pbase.com/o10/81/354081/1/166770935.POH9OeLw.Communal_Solitude.jpg

As always, CC are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

Dec 29, 2017 at 03:19 AM

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Dave,

A superb result. I like the slight optical illusion.

Harold

Dec 29, 2017 at 01:53 PM

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e6filmuser wrote:
Dave,

A superb result. I like the slight optical illusion.

Harold

Thanks. Their a pretty wild looking flower. I'm going to definitely use them as a subject again in the future.

Dave

Dec 30, 2017 at 01:04 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Lotus Revisited

Wonderful result.
Does the camera automatically take a series of shots and stack them ?

Brian v.

Dec 30, 2017 at 01:32 AM

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LordV wrote:
Wonderful result.
Does the camera automatically take a series of shots and stack them ?

Brian v.

Brian,

Thanks. As for the focus stacking, yes, the camera manages it. You set the close focus point, then you set the number of shots and the focus step size (I'm still getting comfortable with the scale they use for setting that step size), and then you turn it loose and it steps the focus and exposes each frame (it will trigger flashes as well, but you have to set a delay between shots commensurate with the recharge time of your flash units otherwise you can get iffy flash results). It doesn't do the processing to stack the images into one extreme depth of field image, that's for you to do. You can use photoshop's autoblend, but I've gotten partial to Helicon Focus. The Helicon software works amazingly well. Now that I don't have to manually adjust focus between each shot (always a source of error), the results are even better.

Dave

Dec 30, 2017 at 02:45 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Lotus Revisited

Very nice shot/stack!

- Rane

Dec 31, 2017 at 05:57 AM


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