Dan,
For learning purposes in my workflow; did you need to focus stack this image, or could you have stopped down as well? I do not as yet have a lot of experience with stacking. Which program do you use, and are the large files difficult to merge?
Thanks,
John
Sorry, missed this one...
Well, I do not focus stack often, but this time it helped because my low camera position. I avoid going past f8,5 with the Rodie, that's the point where it is still stellar but at f11 I can without a doubt see softness creeping in.
It is a typical hyperfocal image but I increased the closer part of the image to be sharper by going backwards, checking the dof scale for each 'stack image'. And staying well inside the dof scale, because PS often mess up the blending, so better to have more images close in focuspoint. If I was to maximize dof I probably would have needed another 10 images, but I thought this was enough with an extra 5 images.
So, I do use this technique sometimes, but quite far inbetween. A couple of degrees forward tilt is often easier and quicker. (however that is scene dependent).
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Yesterday I had a workshop with photoenthusiasts. Great people and we had a fun day out! A few stops along the way, but mainly the idea was to shoot the oldest town in Spain - Ronda. A truly spectacular place with loads of image opportunities, both from a far and in the citycentre. Lots of walking steep hills and thousands of stairs, my legs are…..well…aching.
This one was shot with the Alpa FPS, Helvetar 75 and Credo 60. A two image nodal stitch. Iso 50, 1/125, f8,5.