Focus Stacking - a macro photography technique

Here's a short guide to shooting several photographs to make an ultra sharp close focus shot. Peter Bargh explains how to shoot, and then what software will combine the shots to give you ultra sharp results.

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• helicon
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• focus
• stacking
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[theotrian]

Nice technique, but with such sharp focus you seem to lose some of macro photography's beauty, the chance to focus only on the point of interest and leave everything else vague...

[themanlion1]

4 minutes and 38 seconds that could have easily been 1 minute..... maybe less..

[dongbuka]

thank you so much for this learn

[voltageclamp2001]

@ConnorHamlet You run into the diffraction limit losing sharpness.

[cowgirls8]

Thank you :-)

[MDCCCLXXIV]

@gfgfinlayson also for coolpix DOF is very limited and you can do nothing about it because you cant even determine the point of focus because its all AUTO.

You can use that method only with a camera where you can determine the point of focus....so, manual focus....

[MDCCCLXXIV]

Well Helicon Soft costs about 15 quid...but what the narrator forgot to tell: Its for a one year license. For a lifetime license its ard 120 quid.

[gfgfinlayson]

@35683989

Dumbass. BSS is a Coolpix camera feature which picks the most in focus shot from a bunch of shots and saves that to the memory card. This is a dedicated macro technique for DSLRs. In macro photography DOF is very limited. To get an entire image in focus, you have to photograph a series of in focus slices, and then stack those slices using specialist software.

[Necromax3]

@theotrian that's why this is a tool not a restriction.

[TuRboCrutchez]

1:31 long shitter speed which may not be appropriate LOL

[Lincoshop]

Let us share the resources about photograph with each other,sub me ,thank you.