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<blockquote data-quote="SHAkers718" data-source="post: 526537" data-attributes="member: 37805"><p>[ATTACH]195412[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This is a composite of 10 photos I took in the fall (in spite of the watermark) using a free trial of Zerene Stacker. Super easy but it did not recognize NEF files so I had to use jpegs. In the separate photos there weren't so many dots of debris or reflection in the water but as it floated and made the composite they all showed up and you can see the direction of the flow. I tried to clean up a few of them in Lr6. Mainly, my objective was to give focus stacking a shot and I think it actually is rather intriguing! Oh, the other thing that would have made for a cleaner image is if I would have been using a tripod. I ended up needing to crop a little from the top and right sides because all 10 photos were not perfectly aligned. Also, the plants and shrubbery was swaying slightly in the breeze and you could see movement from one shot to the next, so that may also contribute to a "softer" look in the plants.</p><p></p><p>Thank you @<a href="http://nikonites.com/member-7240-pforsell.html" target="_blank">pforsell</a> for telling me about this software. I may just have to try a free trial of photo accute as well. And BTW, Zerene is not free, but they have different levels of pricing from student for $39 to professional for $289 (USD). I just went back to the website and see that they support TIFF files as well as JPEG.</p><p></p><p>And thank @<a href="http://nikonites.com/member-6277-don-kuykendall.html" target="_blank">Don Kuykendall</a>. I will try to grasp the concept of hyperfocal distance as well to maximize greater DOF results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SHAkers718, post: 526537, member: 37805"] [ATTACH=CONFIG]195412._xfImport[/ATTACH] This is a composite of 10 photos I took in the fall (in spite of the watermark) using a free trial of Zerene Stacker. Super easy but it did not recognize NEF files so I had to use jpegs. In the separate photos there weren't so many dots of debris or reflection in the water but as it floated and made the composite they all showed up and you can see the direction of the flow. I tried to clean up a few of them in Lr6. Mainly, my objective was to give focus stacking a shot and I think it actually is rather intriguing! Oh, the other thing that would have made for a cleaner image is if I would have been using a tripod. I ended up needing to crop a little from the top and right sides because all 10 photos were not perfectly aligned. Also, the plants and shrubbery was swaying slightly in the breeze and you could see movement from one shot to the next, so that may also contribute to a "softer" look in the plants. Thank you @[URL="http://nikonites.com/member-7240-pforsell.html"]pforsell[/URL] for telling me about this software. I may just have to try a free trial of photo accute as well. And BTW, Zerene is not free, but they have different levels of pricing from student for $39 to professional for $289 (USD). I just went back to the website and see that they support TIFF files as well as JPEG. And thank @[URL="http://nikonites.com/member-6277-don-kuykendall.html"]Don Kuykendall[/URL]. I will try to grasp the concept of hyperfocal distance as well to maximize greater DOF results. [/QUOTE]
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