Close-Up and Macro Photography
are always searching for a field tripod that is both lightweight and sturdy at the same time. My Experience with Tripods Althoug ...
Three or Four Leg Sections? Most tripods come with legs that have three or four adjustable- sections. The only reason for having ...
Reflections While I like the idea of ultra-lightweight tripods, when the chips are down, the wind is blowing, and I have a fully ...
Keep It Tight Some tripods have removable leg tips and or a hook (to hang weights from for even greater stability) that extends ...
The Lester A. Dine 100mm macro f/2.8 Macro This lens has all of the features needed for a good macro, including going to 1:1 and ...
Camera Body Cap The “good” or original Nikon cap for the back of lenses. Fighting the Wind and the Light I have a number of very ...
The “Flowerpod” has been a lifesaver when I feel like photography and the conditions are not working with me. The Flowerpod is 1 ...
Well, I am all grown up now and habituated to retouching just as I had to learn to enjoy stacking the photos in the first place. ...
Most of the existing stacking programs offer more than one technique for getting results. Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker both ...
as not to copy wider areas than you need. Often these areas are just a tiny ‘lighter’ area or line where two objects overlap. If ...
What is so useful about Zerene Stacker’s retouch feature is that I can (using the mouse) run up and down my stacked photo layers ...
have to take this image to Photoshop for those last touches, but it looks decent now. There you have the general idea as to what ...
(1) Image using PMax. Notice all of the blurry or hallowed areas, only some of which are marked by red arrows. ...
(2) Image using DMap, 1st Pass. Things look a little better with DMap and I am not getting as many halos, but more single artifa ...
(3) Image using DMap, 2nd Pass. Upping the threshold on DMap did not do a lot of good in this particular instance. ...
(4) Finished Image. Here is the image after retouching using both PMax, Dmap, and the various individual layers of the stack. I ...
Final Image There you have the general idea as to what an average retouching session involves. It takes time and at first glance ...
photos has taught me patience and attention to detail, both of which are things I need to have more of. Focus stacking is not fo ...
What Does Retouching Involve? I put off learning about retouching stacked photos for as long as I could. I did not like the idea ...
is about as bad as it gets, however, and otherwise focus stacking is pretty much a fascinating and rewarding technique. The Niko ...
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