For some reason, I always thought that they had more skill or better equipment than I do, which they probably do on both counts. But I’ve always wondered how other photographers get those awesome images of bugs and other small things. I’m a big fan of macro photography, I love my 180mm macro lens. It may not look like much, but this image is the product of 25 images, but I’m getting ahead of myself, let me back up…
![lr enfuse focus stack lr enfuse focus stack](https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/Focus_stacking/1000px-Focus_stacking_Tachinid_fly.jpg)
This post is more for me than it is for you, a place where I can put down my thoughts, take some notes, and literally empty out my brain of some of the info it’s trying to hang on to while I attempt to learn more. I’m currently in that space where you can’t really sleep because your brain can’t stop working things out (I’ve had less than 5 hours of sleep), you forget to eat until your stomach practically slaps you in the face and then you inhale your food because you are so hungry. I started a project yesterday that had me leveling up like crazy, so much so that my brain started to hurt (figuratively – actually, I just got rather brain tired).
#LR ENFUSE FOCUS STACK SOFTWARE#
Stacking software works by analyzing the entire set of exposures and selecting only the in focus parts of each one and combining them all together.Leveling up, in case you don’t know, is gamer-speak for learning new skills (usually your character has gained new skills and increases in level, e.g. My initial thoughts were : if I take multiple photograph of the same subject with different focus points (superimposed), will the final give a good picture? No because you’d get all the in focus AND out of focus parts of every exposure. What I think multiple exposure refers to is you take 2 (or more) pictures of “different” subjects, on the same photograph (without advancing “the roll”) : Let’s say you take a photograph of a sunset that uses one of the side of the picture (and covers the whole sensor), you take another photograph of another subject (or the same one) that covers the other side of the sensor (or position exactly the same, trying to obtain focus stacking). My understanding is that macro rail is use to make micro adjustments to close-up on on your subject (or back-up) in order to obtain focus (rather than using the “lens focusing ring”). No, macro rail will change plan (closer or farther away) and subject may not be the same size (so no stacking possible). But I’ve been satisfied with the lens ring working up to 1:1.Įxample with an film era fast fitty on extension, using the ring to change focus. The rail is nice for getting very exact focus steps for more extreme macro where very tiny steps are needed. In my reading on the subject there is no problem with using the lens ring to change focus. I think some camera bodies are capable of automating this somewhat tedious process with a USB connection to your computer and special software but not Pentax as far as I know. The stacking software takes care of the rest.
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![lr enfuse focus stack lr enfuse focus stack](https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/Focus_stacking/Photoshop13_stack.jpg)
#LR ENFUSE FOCUS STACK MANUAL#
Also set manual exposure and manual white balance.
![lr enfuse focus stack lr enfuse focus stack](https://www.tuxoche.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lr-enfuse.jpg)
Because of the slight change in focal length due to focus distance changes, I start at the closest focus distance to get the desired framing and then work my way out as far as desired. Using the focus ring works just fine for this, but you need time to make that adjustment between exposures. I’ve done some stacking, but it’s one exposure at a time with a small focus adjustment in between.