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| Posted: Fri Jun 7th, 2019 06:52 |
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Graham Whistler
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This shot would have been perfect for stacking provided no wind. With D800 and 24-70 F2.8 AF-S at 1/200 sec f14 62mm focus would be 1/3 in but last rows no quite sharp. Your poppy field shots look good JK haw many in stack? You must have had a good calm day as with D850 with an 18 image stack it takes about 12 sec to shoot so even slightest puff of wind would kill the registration of the stack. Attachment: Sunflowers4016.jpg (Downloaded 227 times)
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| Posted: Fri Jun 7th, 2019 17:15 |
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jk
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blackfox wrote:Love the moth shot , it would be a stunner cropped in I wish I had had my flash with me as I could have managed to freeze the wings then. Fill-in flash (SB800) makes for some great extra stopping of fast moving wings!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10th, 2019 07:29 |
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Graham Whistler
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Did some more tests yesterday of a 9cm flower in the garden. To find corect settings for D850 and the 105mm Macro lens. In "focus shift shooting" D850 menu I now think that 8 shots at 1/250 sec at f9 is about right with "focus step width" of 8 seems to work well. Always focus on nearest part of flower. Series of 8 takes about 10 sec to run so any movement due to wind or unsteady tripod is a no good at all! I tried several runs in the evening conditions were calm but still slight movement of air is enought to cause ghosting when images are stacked and merged in Photoshop see ghosting of centre of yesterdays test image. This was best of 8 runs. Also with camera set to do 8 pictures in each run the last 2 pixs were not used as focus passed beyond last part of flower. Attachment: Ghosting Crop1.jpg (Downloaded 215 times)
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10th, 2019 16:19 |
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Eric
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Graham I wonder if it's Photoshop itself causing the confused blending? Have you considered getting a free trial with Helicon Focus ...the defacto stacking programme...to compare results?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10th, 2019 18:18 |
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jk
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Graham Whistler wrote:This shot would have been perfect for stacking provided no wind. With D800 and 24-70 F2.8 AF-S at 1/200 sec f14 62mm focus would be 1/3 in but last rows no quite sharp. I shot my poppy field at f8 with my 24-70mm on the Z7. Probably less than ideal as it should have been f5.6 for best results. I set a stack of 8 images, with a spacing of 3. The camera decided it needed just 3 shots! I did some test stacks with my Macro 105mm AFS VR on the Z7 as well but this gave a stack of 5 or 7 i ages which gave a nice result. Results are interesting. I havent noticed artefacts but it is difficultto identify when you have many flower heads.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10th, 2019 18:21 |
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jk
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I will go to Venford Falls where the original video (see Graham's earlier post) was shot and see if I can make some test shots. This really is a technique where time, patience and practice really pays off.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25th, 2019 09:11 |
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Graham Whistler
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Less wind today gave it another go this is 5 images stacked. Attachment: Rose1.jpg (Downloaded 194 times)
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25th, 2019 09:29 |
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jk
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That is really excellent.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26th, 2019 16:54 |
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Graham Whistler
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Icould not find a grasshopper to pose for me so used this very small alpine flower only 2 cm wide flower. 5 Stacks did it no problem, this would work for Blackfox even better with his 60mm Macro. This is the 105mm Nikon Macro and is just able to do 1:1 on the D850. Attachment: Small3927.jpg (Downloaded 179 times)
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26th, 2019 18:25 |
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jk
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I dont think that my iPad does this justice! It is sharp all over. In fact so sharp everywhere it means you need to search for all the points of interest which is almost every hair! Great work Graham.
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