How to Focus Stack in Photography - QUICK and EASY!
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2024
- Focusing stacking is a technique that ALL landscape photographers should know how to do. Luckily, it's a lot easier to do than you might think.
Creating a focus-stacked image allows us to capture scenes where the whole image is in focus from front to back. No matter what aperture you use, you'll never be able to capture a totally sharp image on a wide-angle photo without using focus stacking to combine multiple focus points into one image.
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions regarding focus stacking!
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I use Helicon focus for stacking (using an older, pre-annual fee version), but I prefer to adjust focus manually & shoot as many layers as necessary to make sure I get the entire range I want seamlessly in focus without having to edit unintended oof regions.
For those that haven't tried stacking, it's also a critically important method to use for getting sufficient DOF in macro shots.
Good to know! Thanks.
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u do realise photoshop does auto merge only merging the in focus areas, but sometimes the foliage moves between frames needing a layer mask
The auto merge feature never works well for me!
Awesome 😮 thank you 🌸
You’re welcome 😊
Luminar neo offers auto focus stack . good video tho!
Awesome!
wow thanks
No problem
Why some say is better to over expose to 0.3 or 0.7 and others say is better to underexpose. What is the right way? I thought 0.0 was the right exposure
Definitely better to underexpose landscapes. Portraits are probably better overexposed!
It's situational and sometimes sensor based. 0.0 is a good basis, but in situations where your shadows or highlights are going to clip it's better to expose for one or the other. This is dependent on the dynamic range strengths of your camera. DSLRs tended to clip their highlights easily so underexposing was considered best practices. Mirrorless cameras tend to have good all around dynamic range so overexposing slightly has come into vogue since the highlights will likely still be preserved while giving a better idea of what a final edit will look like with shadows already lifted. This is for RAW, btw. If you're shooting JPEG or video it's probably best to expose your highlights properly and recover shadows as much as possible.
That’s a long conversation, but “perfect exposure” isn’t always what’s better for the photograph.
Just expose for the highlights (the brightest thing in the image) because if you overexpose those, they are much more difficult to get back compared to shadow detail.
@@MichaelRoninTVnot all highlights is a requirement for exposure… context, place and space has to be accounted for
Thank you! Can you show the exposure one as well!
What do you mean?
I think he meant focus bracketing,that HDR thing @@AustinJamesJackson
People complaining that your videos are fast. And I'm watching any slower videos by speeding up 2x 😂
Speed is good. Just have to try that erasing parts not in focus a couple of times myself
Thanks so much!
Do you get problems with lenses that have focus breathing, also do you have a way to do it when you a re in a forest for instance and you can't just mask the lower third, second third and so on?
Focus breathing isn’t too big of a deal if you use the auto align feature in Photoshop. When I can’t just mask a third at a time, I’ll use the brush tool and spend more time to make things look perfect.
How do you get the sky so well exposed without having the rest of the frame completely dark??? That’s what I can’t figure out about mine. I have an eos 500D
It all depends on the dynamic range in the scene. Some scenes are more challenging than others.
Nd filter
Great 🎉
Thanks!
Great, but slower please
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Great shorts edits
Glad you like them!
what is your tripod pls
Slik CF-634 and Slik CF-833!
@@AustinJamesJackson thanks mate
Can you do this in any other program other than PS?
Of course. You can do that in like an old version of GIMP from like 20 years ago and in a lot of other software.
Yeah, any software with layer support!
Does these cameras have auto mode like mobiles?
Yes!
Can I do this in Lightroom?
Unfortunately not at this time.
does this works without a tripod ??
You could, but the results will vary.
Sony used to use sensors on thier cameras to turn the display vertical whne you you turned the camera vertical. Why are they suddenly unable to do that????
The monitor still flips to vertical when you image review, but on the shooting screen it doesn’t flip.
Does cs6 have auto aline?
I’m not sure, you’d have to check.
I am still using CS6 and yes it does auto align, and then I apply auto blend (found under the Edit menu). I'll stack anywhere from 3 to 8 or more images. I manually select my focus points like he shows here. The next evolution is for indoor at home photography to get yourself software for tethering (because your computer is where all the stacks are going to end up anyway. Then you can use focusing magnification on the camera and see it each super large on your monitor to nail it with certainty, not auto focus.
@@charlieross-BRM thnx
Damn, I'm doing too much then with Zerene😅
I’m not sure what that is?
No, that and Helicon are better. PS has option for focus stacking. This guy does it with manually created masks and will have areas with inaccuracies.
......or buy an "Olympus" camera. There you have the result in the camera.
Then you’d have to use Olympus 🤨
@@AustinJamesJackson Yes, first Nikon full format, then "Olympus" OM!/OM1II. I have never regretted the change.
Why do this instead of f22?
f22 might not be the most sharp aperture of your lens. f8 may be sharper on a particular lens, so it would make sense to focus stack at that aperture opposed to f22. Also to add to that you can get diffraction at higher apertures like f22.
@@jeffreysproule That's true, I never thought of it like that. Thanks!
The replies are correct! I have another short I posted recently discussing it as well.
Instructions unclear: my laptop exploded
Huh?
@AustinJamesJackson i followed the instructions and my laptop exploded. The battery or GPU i think
Why use a brush, You can do AUTO Blend just below Auto Align and it will do it automatically
The automatic setting doesn't work as well as doing it manually.
I love how everyone is so talented and knows how to teach everything very easily and smoothly but always fails so miserably simply showing a before/after or with/without picture near the end.
On a smartphone screen, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. You have to zoom in a lot to see the before and after for something like this.
@@AustinJamesJackson it's better than nothing but I'm willing to bet you guys do it deliberately so we have to rewatch the entire short.
@@AustinJamesJackson Okay reason, lame excuse, IF ONLY there was a way to zoom a video in post...
@@samurai4663 ohh wow hater is here. Your watching from UA-cam, try to do it you will notice the difference outside of social media, okay hater.
@@Danielle_Visuals why should I try to do it myself, I just asked for a before and after picture at the end, who hurt ur feelings today that you're this butthurt?
What kind of bracket / tripod head is that? So tiny
Here's a link to the ball head: amzn.to/3Rpqsn8
why F11? at F11 the image is less sharp! most lenses are most sharp at F5.6 and even at F8 it gets unsharper. I photography professional since 20 years and I Never used F8 for anything and I do lots of nature/landscape
F/11 is easier to blend. At f5.6, blending the sharpest spots in the images is a lot harder.
You definitly need a tripod for this.
You can do without it but it will make things easier.
Thats more a quick and dirty way of focus stacking. Professionals use the optimal aperture, which is certainly not f/11 and do as many small focus distance steps manually to reach the desired depth of field with the absolute optimum of pin point sharpness.
Maybe for studio shots, but in the field for landscapes, this is exactly how I do it. I don’t want to spend hours blending 10+ images when I can get the job done with 2 or 3.
@@AustinJamesJackson With the newest cameras from Nikon, there is a built in feature for this. It calculates the images and steps needed and after I press the release button it doesn’t need a second to take all the images, if the shutter speed allows it. In PS you simply align them automatically and overblend them. Of course you can do it your way, but in terms of image quality I can tell you there is a difference.
I don't have Photoshop
There are other programs with similar features too!
OR, just focus on the foreground and set your aperture to f/11 and get it all in one shot :)
For a scene like this, that wouldn’t work.
What about those of us who can’t afford Photoshop?
I’m not aware of a free program that allows you to do this.
@@AustinJamesJackson OK, thanks :)
Just go off and take photographs: don’t get caught in the hyper frenzy of pushing 40 buttons, clicking 30 menu items and stressing out:
Use f18 forget this ,ahh some photographers believe you cant go over f11 ,
Then you’ll have an image that isn’t sharp anywhere 😂
Why@@AustinJamesJackson
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Just use panorama/photomerge
That won’t do what this video is showing.
Wow... framing rip off lol that was wild
Not sure what you mean?
…and thus demonstrating how tech has sucked
the life out of creativity. Maybe just stop the monkey mind, sit and contemplate the beauty around you and then quietly use Manual to make a photo.
How is this ruining creativity? It’s being more creative to overcome limitations of the camera to create even more intriguing images.
Or you can just do it all in camera with 2 clicks on Panasonic
Then you’d have to shoot Panasonic tho 🥲
Or Olympus as well😅, with a fraction of the cost with a m4/3 sensor, tired of this trend where people believe they need another soulless Sony full frame
Orrrr buy a Lumix camera with focus stacking built in as a feature
True!
why f11 tho?
Good balance between sharpness and depth of field!
@@AustinJamesJackson I c but it depends on the focal length, focus distance and the number of focus points really, doesn't it?
@@AustinJamesJackson also most of my lenses start experiencing diffraction at f11, so i usually avoid it if possible.
F8. 💡
F8 - use timer
..exactly how not to focus stack
Why’s that? 😂
Please explain
photoshop commercial, plenty of other ways to work without paying monthly fees to adobe
I only show Photoshop because it’s what most photographers are doing. You can do this in many other editing software like ON1, Luminar, or DxO.
Or you could just buy a Panasonic camera.
Not everyone can afford to buy a new camera.
@@AustinJamesJackson The G95 has stacking built in camera and it is less than most other cameras on the market. It costs $1000 Canadian, or about $750 USD and it comes with a 12-60 lens. I won't buy a Canon FF camera for instance because most of them don't have IBIS, despite charging way more than my G95 that has IBIS.
Sony is very boring cameras. LUMIX has so many more built in cool fun features even in their lower end models. Sony just refuses to put in theirs. I shoot with Sony but have been using my LUMIX G92 Way more as of late It’s put the fun back into my photography
OR ONE CAN BUY WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT.
Sony camera do that in camera
Or just buy a Lumix... 😂
Then you’d have to shoot on LUMIX though… 😂
@@AustinJamesJacksonwin win!! 😂
Is that really called photography when you change the picture
Sure!
Good point
He gets on my nerves because he purposely talks fast so you don’t understand on the first pass nd tries to get you to watch it again. That’s why I’ll never subscribe.
Haha. I talk fast to fit more information in a shorter period of time. If you go too slow, people don’t watch because it takes too long to get to the point. Better to go too fast because you can easily pause. The speed is perfect for many, but if you need it a little slower you are more than welcome to watch it again!