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brads

brads

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Moon in layers

Thought I'd be adventurous and try shooting the moon for layer stacking. I only took 7 images, raw files. 500ml lens so it was not easy with the moon moving so fast. The D3200. Cheers, Brad :)

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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Here is a handheld focussed stacked Robber Fly, it was around 21 images and once layered in PS CC equalled 4.2GB of photos. My iMac handled this with ease.

Am going to use my tripod next of he is still there ;) (edit) tried the tripod but could not get it set up with out "bumping" the robber fly. He finally had enough and flew off.

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brads

brads

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Scott Murray said:
Here is a handheld focussed stacked Robber Fly, it was around 21 images and once layered in PS CC equalled 4.2GB of photos. My iMac handled this with ease.

Am going to use my tripod next of he is still there ;) (edit) tried the tripod but could not get it set up with out "bumping" the robber fly. He finally had enough and flew off.

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That's amazing Scott. Handheld??? Incredible stuff. Really beautiful. And I'll just bet you loved the speed of the new Mac too! Cheers, Brad :)
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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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brads said:
That's amazing Scott. Handheld??? Incredible stuff. Really beautiful. And I'll just bet you loved the speed of the new Mac too! Cheers, Brad :)
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Thanks Brad, yes this was handheld. Later I tried with tripod but kept disturbing him as the focus distance is very marginal. I actually cropped off its abdomen a bit as it was out of alignment.
 
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WhiteLight

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How did you manage 21 shots!?
Getting him to stay steady is one thing, but how did you focus on 21 different spots without the camera moving?
I would love to know!
 
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RookieDSLR

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I was just messing around with 105mm Macro today and thought I would try to do a focus stack shot. I did it hand held and took 5 total shots. The first three the center of the screw head was not in focus and the last two only the inside of the screw was in focus. Then with some editing this is the final product. I think I am officially hooked!

Thanks
Jeremy V

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Jonathan

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My second go (my first go was disastrous). I took 19 photos with my 40mm on my D3100 on a tripod using a cabled remote shutter release. I used Zerene Stacker. I think this is pretty crud, but I guess it's a learning curve! Interesting that dragging and dropping from Aperture mixes up the file order (maybe the problem with my first attempt on a pile of dead Daddy Longlegs). Based on this I might by the software (on a month's trial at the moment). I'd love to get the crispness of photos I have seen in this thread. Any thoughts?

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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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WhiteLight said:
How did you manage 21 shots!?
Getting him to stay steady is one thing, but how did you focus on 21 different spots without the camera moving?
I would love to know!
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Only just saw this,.

I basically took the photo like I would a Panorama ensuring that I got every mm of the robber fly in focus in a shot. I then used the 'Align' function in PS and then 'Stack - Focus'. This was the end result.
 
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Edb

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hello, i took five photos of this charm and stacked them in ps cc. I cant seem to get rid of the double image on the "o" and the "m". has anyone got any ideas, is it just a case that i took two photos too close together or is it a software problem..
thanks for any help.
Ed
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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Ok been trialling something this morning and here are 2 focus stacks one from Helicon and one from Photoshop.

The below is the photoshop version, I had to manually align some of the images as PS struggled (you do not want to see the auto version.)

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This one is the Helicon version using Method B - Depth Map

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tommy123s

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I love the pics Was just wandering how you do this process. I understand multiple pics but how do you focus on a different spot each time and i guess you need to have the exact angle each pic
 
Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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tommy123s said:
I love the pics Was just wandering how you do this process. I understand multiple pics but how do you focus on a different spot each time and i guess you need to have the exact angle each pic
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All I do is starting from the head I work my way back trying to get each spot, I am doing these handheld and just moving my body in to achieve different focus's, you can use a tripod.
 
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tommy123s

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Do you have to worry about the distance away from the object or do you resize the pic in editing. Sorry im completely new to photagraphy and would love to learn as much as possible
 
Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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tommy123s said:
Do you have to worry about the distance away from the object or do you resize the pic in editing. Sorry im completely new to photagraphy and would love to learn as much as possible
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The editing programs will adjust the layers automatically. But when shooting macro you are always pretty close to the subject.
 
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tommy123s

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Thanks I'm looking forward to doing some stuff soon with my camera i just been out once so far and i was mainly playing around with the settings on it some.
 
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