- HELICON FOCUS METHOD C HALOS HOW TO
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Go through the forum where rjlittlefield of Zerene is an active contributor.Īnother place: of Michel Erlewine, he is active at Nikongear (pay site).
"No problem can be solved at the level of consciousness which created it" - Albert Einstein One same end result, but maybe two different underlying causation's.
HELICON FOCUS METHOD C HALOS SOFTWARE
For example, let's say that I want to capture a total DOF of 10mm in ten images at a ratio of 1:1 using f/16, then in theory each shot should be taken 1mm apart (ie: forward or backward) on the rail to avoid what I call "the smoothies" which are regions of the image that after being blended show no detail.which has occurred because the frame overlap capture was not sufficient enough and hence some areas were not in focus.īasically, I think there are two potential reasons behind these 'smoothie' regions.ġ) There is not enough "overlap" between stack images.therefore certain regions lose resolution/detail, etc.Ģ) The stacking software simply cannot blend/align the images 200% correctly.which is also probably due to inadequate overlap between frames.thus, it's unable to amalgamate images perfectly. It is worth noting though - that it's important to make sure that each separate shot is "spaced" the same amount apart to ensure the best quality final stack. I discuss this phenomena (that I call "the smoothies" ) in my short blog on stacking. That beats the shoot/click fine focus adjust/shoot/repeat x 100 nonsense with Nikon's Camera Control pro. I can set up a stack in Helicon Remote, start it shooting, and leave it to run to the end. On another subject, I am liking the automation and focus control in Helicon Remote (for Mac).
HELICON FOCUS METHOD C HALOS HOW TO
Is there a good guide somewhere to getting the best out of Zerene Stacker?ĭoes anybody else have good advice for getting the most out of Zerene, and how to retouch an image that comes out less than ideal? My goal for these images is to make bigger-than-life large prints, so flaws like translucent areas misalignments, and halos will really stand out. If I built this stack using PS, I could go edit the layer masks on the component layers to make the foreground bits fully opaque, but I don't know how to do that in Zerene.
If you open the original image and zoom in, you see that lots of the near flower parts appear partly transparent, and show the bits behind. The second flower shot (I need to ask my wife what kind of flower this is) has more serious problems. The shot of the mum has the least artifacts: Just some minor blurring and halos around the edges of the flower. Most notably, parts of flower petals show up as translucent, and the areas behind show through. That seems to give the best results of all "out of the box", but still has problems here and there. Once I got the right settings, its output was an improvement over PS, but still had a fair number of flaws. It was decent, but required far too much touchup. MPE-65MM - MT-24EX Twin Macro Flash (diffused with 2 X Gary Fong Puffer diffuser)ĮF-S 60mm f2.When I first started experimenting with Focus stacking I used the built-in auto-align layers/auto-blend layers feature of PS CS 6. My flickr gallery - photos/hooked_on_macro/ĭA Gallery where i sell prints - / Uk prayingmantis forum - t.co.uk/forums/index.php
HELICON FOCUS METHOD C HALOS MANUAL
Somthing that needs adding imo which is important.,manual stacking.manual relining.sometimes iv found your software cant stack the images of the have moved a little.but the stack worked fine on combine when i manual relined it.any way to make the software so we can use the method like on combine the old 1 and 2 points and master and 3 and 4 ect. It's expected that users will do that to their own taste in Photoshop or some other full-featured photo editing package. Hello - as the author of Zerene Stacker, I am glad to see that it's working for you.
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