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Artful pics of flora...
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Darin Marcus
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Nikon 1 J5, 1 Nikkor VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 208mm (562mm equiv.), 1/400, f/5.6, ISO 200
Darin Marcus
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Nikon D40, AF-S DX Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G VR
Darin Marcus
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Very nice!Exploding spring heralds
A7ii + Pentacon 50/1.8 (M42)
Darin Marcus
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Nikon D40, AF-S DX Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G VR @ 110mm (165mm equiv.), 1/400, f/5.6, ISO 200
k-hawinkler
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My first attempt at focus stacking (helicon focus)
Tulip
A7ii + APO Lanthar 65/2, stack of 27 shots)
Thanks. Welcome to the club. Congrats. Great image. :thumbs: :grin:
Knorp
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+1 Well done, Pieter. How did you move focus ?
pegelli
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Thanks Bart, I kept focus on the lens constant and moved 2 mm between shots with a novoflex macro rail.
Here you see the tool in the hands of its previous owner (my dad)
DougDolde
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Near the I-10 entrance to Joshua Tree National Park on 3/4/19. Nikon D850, 28mm f1.8 G lens. And no stinking tripod
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Photographic Art | Primrose Path
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Photographic Art | Primrose Path
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JoelM
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Pieter,
Does Helicon allow you to stack these as RAW files or must you first process each one as a TIFF first?
TIA,
Joel
pegelli
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Hi Joel, I can hardly be considered a specialist (I've only done a couple) but the way I process the series of images into a focus-stacked end result is as follows:
1) Use manual exposure when shooting (so they all come out the same)
2) Import in Lightroom
3) Select all images, and use "auto-sync" in the develop module (so they all remain the same)
4) Do all PP required (lens correction/tone/colour/crop/vignette etc, etc....)
5) Use the Lightroom plugin for Helicon focus for all the selected images (File menu, Plug-in-extras, Export to Helicon Focus)
6) Render the stack in Helicon focus
7) Save the resulting image (this is a tiff)
8) Close Helicon focus
9) The resulting stacked image is then automatically imported back into lightroom and can be further processed there.
It seems the "pro" version can also create a dng of the stacked image, but I haven't done that yet.
Hope this helps a bit, and if someone has any tips for me (or us) to do it better/easier I'd love to hear about that.
