Jeffrey
Well-Known Member
When I saw my wife come in with this nice little arrangement of dahlias she just picked from our front yard garden today, I knew I had the subject to try a focus stack image. I had failed at the last couple of attempts that were actually tests of the automated focus bracket feature on my Fuji GFX100 camera. I just didn't have the control I needed. On this shoot, I picked my own focus points and pressed the shutter each time. I missed a small area of the focal plane I needed, but it is not too obvious here. I used 14 frames. With a 102 mpxl camera, the layered photoshop working file was 9.5 GB! Things were slowing down, and it was quite time consuming to align the layers and then merge them in PS. I left the room and did other tasks while this was calculating...
Setup was simply natural light from a window to the right with a piece of blue mat board as the background all on the kitchen counter. GF120mm macro lens, f8, almost a second of exposure.. I darkened and vignetted the BG in post, but the flowers got minimum treatment, as this camera has such fabulous IQ right off the card, especially comping to -1.0 EV to saturate the colors naturally and control the whites.. I don't really think I'm very good at this yet, but I was happy with this result.
Setup was simply natural light from a window to the right with a piece of blue mat board as the background all on the kitchen counter. GF120mm macro lens, f8, almost a second of exposure.. I darkened and vignetted the BG in post, but the flowers got minimum treatment, as this camera has such fabulous IQ right off the card, especially comping to -1.0 EV to saturate the colors naturally and control the whites.. I don't really think I'm very good at this yet, but I was happy with this result.
