Stacked image #2 Clover Flower

Bear Dale

Senior Member
Tried another stacked photo, again only eleven frames of a just a clover flower.


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JuleSolo

Senior Member
Hi Quintrex,

Love the pic. Focus Shifting/Stacking is the number one reason I want to upgrade to the D850. Are you using Photoshop to do the stacking, and which version - thanks.
 

Moab Man

Senior Member
Focus Shifting/Stacking is the number one reason I want to upgrade to the D850.

Not to hijack the thread, but you know you don't need the D850 to do this (I know it shoots the sequence in camera)? Not trying to pursued you from buying it, but you can use a free program like DigiCamControl for tethering and shooting the images to do a focus stack. The program works brilliantly and it's fast with transfer.

Done hijacking. :)
 

STM

Senior Member
Very nice! Stacking is one of the greatest things to happen to macrophotography since the invention of the macro lens! Below is 10 stacked images taken of a jumping spider that was only 5mm long!

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Photowyzard

Senior Member
Not to hijack the thread, but you know you don't need the D850 to do this (I know it shoots the sequence in camera)? Not trying to pursued you from buying it, but you can use a free program like DigiCamControl for tethering and shooting the images to do a focus stack. The program works brilliantly and it's fast with transfer.

Done hijacking. :)


If you shoot to stack the traditional way, and you shoot 100 images to stack in camera as you suggest.... your shutter takes a 100 CLICK hit.

If you shoot to stack with Nikon's built in Focus Shift Shooting.... your shutter takes a 1 CLICK HIT. Shutter goes up.... camera fires 100 times, shutter goes down. Brilliant!

Have to research DigiCamControl. Not familiar with it.
 

ed4banger

Senior Member
Excuse my ignorance, but I thought focus stacking was to allow the combining of images from min focus to infinity. Most of the flower in your image is not in focus. Am I missing something here? Maybe a larger # of photos?
 

Bear Dale

Senior Member
Excuse my ignorance, but I thought focus stacking was to allow the combining of images from min focus to infinity. Most of the flower in your image is not in focus. Am I missing something here? Maybe a larger # of photos?

Sorry I'm no expert and that was the first stack I've ever taken. Maybe someone else can jump in and answer your question for you.
 

ed4banger

Senior Member
Sorry I'm no expert and that was the first stack I've ever taken. Maybe someone else can jump in and answer your question for you.

Sorry, not meaning to be critical, just trying to understand. Think I'll maybe try it myself later today. Nice pic by the way.
 

ed4banger

Senior Member
OK, so gave this a try. Interesting results. Just an exercise, so just grabbed something off the shelf to photograph. Just shot JPG format, and f2.8 to narrow DOF. This composite is from 18 images.

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