Very helpful video. To have focus bracketing built into the R6 is so awesome. Have recently started playing with macro focus stacking. It is a wonderful genre to explore.
If you are using EF glass I beleive most of them are sharpest around F8ish. I have no clue for the Higher end RF so much has changed wiith the RF line up its incredible.
Shooting butterflies and dragonflies I can get the entire subject in focus with a dozen shots or so stacked. It's interesting that you would choose a subject that did not focus stack successfully as the example for the video. I guess it wasn't focused on the nearest edge to start with. I suppose showing one that's been incorrectly done will still teach the method and what to look out for. None of the examples shown were fully in focus.
Thanks for the comment. I mentioned that I was definitely in the experiment phase for macro focus bracketing and very much suggested that anyone trying this should try different methods. I believe my problem was that I used to thin a segment between images and therefore this resulted in more shots but not focused all the way through. I am very glad that you are able to get great shots 👍🏼
Good stuff Pablo! Appreciate your effort in making this vid and showing us the how to’s of focus bracketing. Thanks for letting us know about your merch - I put my order in today! Take care my friend, Mahalo and Aloha.
808Flyer Heyyyyyy! Thanks Oli, merch appreciated, see what did there 😂 Honestly, thanks so much and I hope you got that design I created based on you input🤞🏼
Very well done great demo of the R6 capabilities and of how to process the image. I love to shoot macro with my Nikon I just got the R5 so I will give this a go. For me I would shoot at f/8 or even f/11 for greater depth of field and sharpness and fewer images. It is great to see the the R5 or 6 will use electronic shutter for this type of image so that will save wear on the mechanical shutter. Keep the great videos coming!
Love your videos and your way of showing us more of photography.. I'm waiting on my r6 to come in. I'm from the Houston area and also have a UA-cam channel. My channel is about life on the road as a truck driver.. Again love your videos can't wait to see more...
Thanks so much Jorge, you are going to love your R6! You must have a lot of interesting content as you travel in your truck, very cool. Thanks so much for watching 👍🏼
thank you. Your videos are great! I guess understanding the mechanics a bit more would help. I thought a "thinner slice" would give you more focus and images, it seems you are saying it just stops even if you select 999?
Great question Bianca. I would set the range (or slice) of each image taken to be a bit wider so it covers more ground from the front of the image to the back of the image.
Thanks for the great question Richard. I actually am going to revisit this soon, I want to do some product photography and more macro. I need to put in more reps by changing the narrowness from 1 to 10 and also adjusting the aperture. Perhaps shooting completely wide open is not always conducive to good coverage.
@@pablodiazphotography I understand at your widest aperture F2.8 your DOF is very shallow. So it could be that your focus was at a different part. But the focus bracketing should resolve this.
The focus bracketing in these cameras is terrible. It almost always misses more of the subject than it gets. I wish there was a way to set my furthest and closest desired focus points then have it take shots in-between those two points.
It definitely could be better, hopefully they work on this feature in the future, but still glad it’s available on the camera. Yes, also agree that in and out points that cover a specific part of t subject would be covered.
@@pablodiazphotography I spent some time with it and turns out it's not as bad as I thought. It doesn't make it clear but all it does is focus further out each shot then stop when it no longer finds focus on the subject. Setting the AF point on the part of the subject closest to the camera then letting it incriment out yielded pretty good results.
Are you finding the 20mp sensor on the R6 okay when it comes to image quality after cropping? Only think that concerns me about the sensor compared with the R.
Cornishblue Videos My short experience with the camera has found that the images are fantastic. There will definitely be some MP loss but depending on how the image is presented will determine the how lower MP in this case will affect the image. I have a video in the works that will be testing R6 vs R photos both digitally and printed large, we’ll see what happens and also thanks for mentioning cropping, I will add this as a point in the video.
Buenos Diaz Imagery thanks for replying and I look forward to the comparison with the R reference image quality and large prints. As for Cropping is often necessary for my bird photography, so will be really interested in the results you find
I have the R6 and I crop. It's simply not a problem for web or for print. Plus, adobe came out with the super resolution feature. A total and complete NON ISSUE, folks.
Can i ask you a question im new to macro photography and photo stacking my question is do you keep the AF on or off or it doesn't matter as your telling the camera to do it for you
Sorry am I missing something? The image of the locket must be the worst example of photo stacking I have ever seen and certainly not of any quaility. The right hand side is completely blown out and out of focus. Certainly not a great advert for the R6.
@@pablodiazphotography Thanks for your gracious reply. As a 5D MK4 owner thinking of moving to mirrorless this was a bit of a deal breaker. I do quite a bit of focus stacking imagery, albeit manual with the 5D, and thought the 6D would automate a lot of the work. Hence my disappointment at the images produced by the 6D.
@@geoffreykingston4866 I understand completely and I have plans to do a follow video in the near future showing more variations and trials of what the automated focus stacking can do on the R6.
This has really made bracketing make sense. Great video thank you.
Thanks a bunch for watching! Glad it was helpful 👍🏼
Great video, thanks for sharing the in-depth step by step process!
Thanks for watching, glad it was helpful.
Very helpful video. Well explained. Cheers from New Zealand! Thank you!
Thanks so much for watching Joseph! Would love to visit your beautiful country some day!
Very interesting video. Not something I’ve done, so very helpful thanks.
Cornishblue Videos Awesome, Thanks so much for watching!
Very helpful video. To have focus bracketing built into the R6 is so awesome. Have recently started playing with macro focus stacking. It is a wonderful genre to explore.
Glad it was helpful! And, I agree, macro is such a fun aspect of photography. Cheers my friend.
Thanks for doing this video huge help!
I’m glad the video helped 👍🏼
nice sir..i love both R6 and R5
Ajay Singh Thanks Ajay, yes, I agree 👍🏼
@@pablodiazphotography ya..you are welcome bro
If you are using EF glass I beleive most of them are sharpest around F8ish. I have no clue for the Higher end RF so much has changed wiith the RF line up its incredible.
Great tip Daniel and yes the RF lineup of lenses keeps growing with so many offerings and I am glad they are mixing in some non L series glass.
Good explanation thanks
Thanks, Philip!
Shooting butterflies and dragonflies I can get the entire subject in focus with a dozen shots or so stacked. It's interesting that you would choose a subject that did not focus stack successfully as the example for the video. I guess it wasn't focused on the nearest edge to start with. I suppose showing one that's been incorrectly done will still teach the method and what to look out for. None of the examples shown were fully in focus.
Thanks for the comment. I mentioned that I was definitely in the experiment phase for macro focus bracketing and very much suggested that anyone trying this should try different methods. I believe my problem was that I used to thin a segment between images and therefore this resulted in more shots but not focused all the way through. I am very glad that you are able to get great shots 👍🏼
Good stuff Pablo! Appreciate your effort in making this vid and showing us the how to’s of focus bracketing. Thanks for letting us know about your merch - I put my order in today! Take care my friend, Mahalo and Aloha.
808Flyer Heyyyyyy! Thanks Oli, merch appreciated, see what did there 😂 Honestly, thanks so much and I hope you got that design I created based on you input🤞🏼
Buenos Diaz Imagery Yeah man - “Sunset Surfer” premium tee and “Buenos Diaz” light sweat. Can’t wait! Mahalo!
808Flyer Awesome! Would love to see a pic when you get it
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Very well done great demo of the R6 capabilities and of how to process the image. I love to shoot macro with my Nikon I just got the R5 so I will give this a go. For me I would shoot at f/8 or even f/11 for greater depth of field and sharpness and fewer images. It is great to see the the R5 or 6 will use electronic shutter for this type of image so that will save wear on the mechanical shutter. Keep the great videos coming!
Great advice on aperture settings! I appreciate the feedback!
Love your videos and your way of showing us more of photography.. I'm waiting on my r6 to come in. I'm from the Houston area and also have a UA-cam channel. My channel is about life on the road as a truck driver.. Again love your videos can't wait to see more...
Thanks so much Jorge, you are going to love your R6! You must have a lot of interesting content as you travel in your truck, very cool. Thanks so much for watching 👍🏼
@@pablodiazphotographyIf you wanna check it out its called A Truckers Life.. Thanks again..
Cool thanks
Hi pablo kindly can you do a vedio on how to use the focus brackiting using the canon dpp 4 if you can
Regards
Ps keep up your good work
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What do you think the difference would be between say 10 shot instead of 499 or 999 like you did?
Hi Declan, if you shoot a lesser amount of photos, I would widen the gap of coverage so the more is in focus with a smaller number of images.
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thank you. Your videos are great! I guess understanding the mechanics a bit more would help. I thought a "thinner slice" would give you more focus and images, it seems you are saying it just stops even if you select 999?
Yes, it’s max is 999 shots. You may even want to close down your aperture, let’s say, 1.8 to 2.8 or 3.5.
how would you fix the upper right that is no tin focus.
Great question Bianca. I would set the range (or slice) of each image taken to be a bit wider so it covers more ground from the front of the image to the back of the image.
You can do this with a flash ?
Not really, because there are to many successive shots that have to be taken and the flash would not be able to refresh fast enough.
Did you figure out why none of the closest points never got focused? Was it out of range of the extension tube? Good video got me excited to try.
Thanks for the great question Richard. I actually am going to revisit this soon, I want to do some product photography and more macro. I need to put in more reps by changing the narrowness from 1 to 10 and also adjusting the aperture. Perhaps shooting completely wide open is not always conducive to good coverage.
@@pablodiazphotography I understand at your widest aperture F2.8 your DOF is very shallow. So it could be that your focus was at a different part. But the focus bracketing should resolve this.
@@MrBorderman01 Absolutely, I appreciate the insight, thank you 🙏🏼
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The focus bracketing in these cameras is terrible. It almost always misses more of the subject than it gets. I wish there was a way to set my furthest and closest desired focus points then have it take shots in-between those two points.
It definitely could be better, hopefully they work on this feature in the future, but still glad it’s available on the camera. Yes, also agree that in and out points that cover a specific part of t subject would be covered.
@@pablodiazphotography I spent some time with it and turns out it's not as bad as I thought. It doesn't make it clear but all it does is focus further out each shot then stop when it no longer finds focus on the subject. Setting the AF point on the part of the subject closest to the camera then letting it incriment out yielded pretty good results.
Hi Pablo, is there anyway to use a flash with focus bracketing in R6?
My best advice would be to bracket focus manually. This way the refresh on the flash won’t be a problem.
Thank you
Are you finding the 20mp sensor on the R6 okay when it comes to image quality after cropping? Only think that concerns me about the sensor compared with the R.
Cornishblue Videos My short experience with the camera has found that the images are fantastic. There will definitely be some MP loss but depending on how the image is presented will determine the how lower MP in this case will affect the image. I have a video in the works that will be testing R6 vs R photos both digitally and printed large, we’ll see what happens and also thanks for mentioning cropping, I will add this as a point in the video.
Buenos Diaz Imagery thanks for replying and I look forward to the comparison with the R reference image quality and large prints. As for Cropping is often necessary for my bird photography, so will be really interested in the results you find
I have the R6 and I crop. It's simply not a problem for web or for print. Plus, adobe came out with the super resolution feature. A total and complete NON ISSUE, folks.
20MP is alot of pixels..dont worry
Can i ask you a question im new to macro photography and photo stacking my question is do you keep the AF on or off or it doesn't matter as your telling the camera to do it for you
Great question. The lens should be on AF mode for it to work properly.
@@pablodiazphotography thank you very much for your prompt answer you got a new subscription from me
Sorry am I missing something? The image of the locket must be the worst example of photo stacking I have ever seen and certainly not of any quaility. The right hand side is completely blown out and out of focus. Certainly not a great advert for the R6.
Your comment is welcome here. Each individual image should have been at a wider range, as to get all of the subject in focus.
@@pablodiazphotography Thanks for your gracious reply. As a 5D MK4 owner thinking of moving to mirrorless this was a bit of a deal breaker. I do quite a bit of focus stacking imagery, albeit manual with the 5D, and thought the 6D would automate a lot of the work. Hence my disappointment at the images produced by the 6D.
@@geoffreykingston4866 I understand completely and I have plans to do a follow video in the near future showing more variations and trials of what the automated focus stacking can do on the R6.