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Old June 16th 18, 11:44 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Savageduck[_3_]
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Default X-T2 Focus Stacking Experiment

On Jun 16, 2018, Alfred Molon wrote
(in . com):

In iganews.com,
Savageduck says...
I used my XF16mm f/1.4 set at f/2 @ ISO 200. Distance was about 12?. I used
a Godox TT350F flash. I took a focus bracket of 20 exposures with an
interval of 3 second to ensure the flash was functional for each exposure.

The 20 shots were imported into Lightroom CCC, and then opened as layers in
Photoshop CC. The layers were auto aligned, and then auto blended, and saved
back to LR to get this result.

https://adobe.ly/2HPFNXH


Looks good. I tried focus stacking when Olympus updated the firmware of
the E-M1 II to allow it with the 12-100 and did this test:
https://myolympus.org/document.php?id=20179


That is pretty good.

Focus stacking is not something I see myself over using. I want to be
comfortable with the technique for those times it will be a useful solution
for troublesome subjects. I think it is best suited to macro, and some
product photography. I just find that something different like long exposure,
HDR, and IR photography is a way of continuing to learn about different
photography techniques. Each can be useful at different times, and sometimes
can be the best solution to a difficult shooting problem.

I have seen a few Youtube videos where focus stacking has been used for
landscape, and artchitecture photography, so that is next on my focus
stacking test mission.

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Regards,
Savageduck