So you take the Sony A7IV camera with the latest firmware update and you attach the Sony 90mm f/2.8 Macro G Lens and set the camera for focus bracketing using the small interval focus change and a hundred exposures with an f/8 aperture and ISO 100 quality and you get 100 files that look this bad:
Then you put the 100 files through a photo editor to get the exposure just right and process them in another piece of software that combines them into a focus stack and get this:
And if you crop that stack photo you’ll find quite a lot of detail:
Admittedly, this isn’t the loveliest insect photo on record but you have to admit it has a lot of detail.
Gregor?
That Mr. Kafka called again!
I think he’s a handsome fellow. Right?
That is impressive,
It’s better than a lot of my earlier attempts. I did a few thing differently. Using F/8 and ISO 100 and putting the files through a photo editor before putting them through the stacking software made a big difference. And using the smaller jpegs instead of putting 88 huge raw files through the stacker sped things up a great deal.
But running 100 files through a photo editor would be quite a chore in it’s own. I’ve been using my photo editor, Photoshop, for close to 20 years and know of no way to mass edit multiples of files. + You would have to perform the identical manipulations to each file. I used to use Lightroom extensively but haven’t in a number of years. Maybe there’s a way in that. Did you mass convert RAW to jpeg or just shoot jpeg to start with? That’s a 4 or 6:1 drop in file size to start with. I can see how… Read more »
Tom, I’m sorry to hear about the illness in your home. These things are coming after everyone. It’s awful. Maybe edit is the wrong term for what I’m doing. When Lightroom became a subscription only system I dropped it and replaced it with Capture 1. I’m still a neophyte with the program but I can do the easy stuff. And because the 100 files (well I only needed 88 of them) are basically identical from an adjusting perspective I use a command that allows me to copy the adjustments from one file to all the selected 88 files. The adjustments… Read more »
Thanks for the very interesting lesson.
I’m glad you found it interesting. Hopefully at some point I’ll have some more colorful and attractive subjects like moths and butterflies.