The ultra-wideangle crutch/fetish
 

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 10:56:51 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
https://petapixel.com/2018/06/22/the-ultimate-focus-stacking-guide-for-landscape-photographers/

Nope, doesn't really have anything to do with Ultra-Wide angle,
except for how wider lenses had traditionally had a physics advantage
for being easier to achieve deeper Depth of Field (DoF) than longer
focal lengths...

....and the traditional method to do this was to set the lens at its
hyperfocal distance, crank shut the aperture (~f/22) and then lengthen
the shutter speed to get back to the desired exposure.

For there to now be new tools in the toolbox to do this under different
conditions ... faster shutter speeds, which require either higher ISO
or a more open aperture ... simply increases the flexibility and the
potential applicability for this composition technique to be applied.

And if products like Helicon's makes the workflow more productive,
so be it. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.


-hh




Helicon

The ultra-wideangle crutch/fetish
 

On 29/06/2018 01:09, RichA wrote:
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People should consider looking elsewhere than just PS. Helicon is unsung and a great stacking program. While a few years back I watched utter crap being produced by stitching in Photoshop, a program out of the University of British Columbia produced fantastic, seamless panoramas and collages.

Commercially available as Autopano Pro - very good indeed!

http://www.kolor.com/autopano/

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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

The ultra-wideangle crutch/fetish
 

On Jun 28, 2018, David Taylor wrote
(in article ):

On 29/06/2018 01:09, RichA wrote:
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People should consider looking elsewhere than just PS. Helicon is unsung
and a great stacking program. While a few years back I watched utter crap
being produced by stitching in Photoshop, a program out of the University
of British Columbia produced fantastic, seamless panoramas and collages.

Commercially available as Autopano Pro - very good indeed!

http://www.kolor.com/autopano/

That is very promising for panos, but what about focus stacking/bracketing
blending for landscapes, which was what the Petapixel article Rich posted was
all about?

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Regards,
Savageduck