[LRflex] Re: Friday Flowers - Aram
- From: Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:46:21 -0700
OOPS. Already answered it.
Aram
-----Original Message-----
From: William Abbott
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 4:14 PM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Friday Flowers - Aram
Aram,
Disregard by last email. You've answered my question.
Thanks,
Bill
On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I took the angled shot, I had that in mind. Things lined up along a
plane so no need for stacking.
When I stack, I focus wide open on either the closest or furthest part of
the subject I want to be sharp. I stop down to say f-4 or f-8. my choice
is dictated by how close the background is and if I want it to be sharper
or less sharp. Then I take the photo, move the plane of focus up or down,
take another, and repeat until I have the subject covered from closest to
furthest in as many slices as it takes.
I process one of the images in Lightroom, then sync them all, then export
to CS6, align and blend the images, which CS6 does automatically. I have
written a macro so it is all done in one command. I inspect the photo to
see if I need to tweak the layer masks a bit, then flatten the image and
save it back into Lightroom for any further post processing.
On these, instead of changing the focus of the lens I tried something a
bit different. I moved the camera forward or backward using my focusing
rail and kept the focus the same. Seems to have worked OK. Thought I'd
try that since it keeps the magnification the same because there was so
much depth to the flowers.
Why focus stack? Why not just stop down to f-22 or less? Well, the lens
is sharpest in the range I chose as if you stop down to those really small
apertures, diffraction can rear it's ugly head, so I am told. I don't
ever remember really looking for that. But I really do it because it
extends the range of focus w/o really extending it much beyond, so the
background to my eye is usually more pleasing that shooting at f-22 and
getting the background too much in focus and distracting from the main
subject. Hence, the f-4, 5.6 or 8 range. If the background it too close,
I go for the larger aperture and take more slices. If not, go for f-8.
Hope that puts things in focus, as it were......
Thanks for looking.
Aram
-----Original Message----- From: David Young
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 12:56 PM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Friday Flowers - Aram
Hi Aram!
I don't fully understand the concept of "stacked shots", although I think
I
have the basic idea.
Whatever it is you're doing, it works great! Magnificent detail and DOF.
Though I must admit that I prefer the angle/composition of the single
shot,
best.
Thanks for sharing! Great stuff!
David.
More cactus from SoCal. Will be heading back up north in a week. view
large. All taken with 100 APO on Nikon D600 Single image.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ff/Yellow+Cactus-5707.jpg.html
Stacked images. About 14 for each shot.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ff/Yellow+Cactus-5674-
Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ff/Yellow+Cactus-5692-
Edit.jpg.html
Comments welcome
Aram
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