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12-Mar-2021 jimmsp

09 Succulent Flower

Green Valley, AZ

22 frames of focused stacked images; color graded the highlights and shadows.

Canon EOS 90D
1/400s f/3.5 at 100.0mm iso100
22 frames of focus stacking full exif

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Canon Image Challenge17-Mar-2021 22:05
This is superb. You are making me want to try focus stacking. My M6II has the same focus bracketing capability as the 90D (they are very similar cameras internally, right down to the same sensor), but I have yet to use it. My newly acquired R, unfortunately, doesn't (it came out before the 90D and M6II). If the snow melts in time, perhaps I'll try a focus stack of the wasp's nest that is currently buried under snow.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge17-Mar-2021 16:13
Dave - I just checked the DPP I downloaded with the 90D. It does do stacking. The results on one stack I did was acceptable; not as good as PS, but acceptable.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge17-Mar-2021 11:22
Does Canon's DPP also handle shot stacking duties?

Dave
Canon Image Challenge17-Mar-2021 03:40
Dave - I have shot most of mine hand held, as this one was. A tripod is better, but when I hike I generally don't carry it. I think it shoots quickly enough. Traveler, with his mastery of slow night shots, would master this.
Software will align them all. Photoshop, which comes with my Lightroom, does an excellent job. You will generally lose some of each of the 4 sides when handheld; but I just plan for it. Photoshop does a blend of the shots, picking out the sharpest parts of each shot.
It is rarely perfect, but it is as good as other software I have tried.

Jim

Canon Image Challenge17-Mar-2021 03:08
Focus stacking is one of the things making me consider getting a 90D. Is a tripod needed, or does the camera shoot quickly and software align?

Dave
Canon Image Challenge16-Mar-2021 20:20
Guest - if I was going to take anything else, I probably would have gone closer to f/16. I have been successful with that before, as it has a decent DOF; but generally "not good enough" for me. But my goals are apparently a bit higher than yours. And not knowing who you are prevents me from actually knowing what your goals are.

As I learn to improve my focus stacking, some people feel you should take shots at a smaller aperture like f/5 so that you get larger dof at any one shot. I have played there as well.
BTW, not a lot of "effort", just more time. The 90D has focus stacking acquisition built in, and with the combo of LR and PS, the post processing is easy, but time consuming. For me, the color grading is more "effort", as I am still learning that skill.

Jim
Guest 16-Mar-2021 15:55
IMO, not much result for all that effort. I would have liked to see a shot taken at f/8 or f/11. Judging from the ISO, there appears to have been sufficient light available.
Canon Image Challenge16-Mar-2021 02:18
Guest - I put the 1st one of the stack into pending for you. It has the same Lightroom post work as the stacked tiff, except for the crop.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge15-Mar-2021 00:43
Guest - I wouldn't mind doing that - but look at the EXIFS. I shot at f/3.5 which will have a very narrow DOF. What would you like to learn; or see?
Which shot? - a middle one? end one?

Jim
Guest 14-Mar-2021 18:51
How about a one-shot image for comparison?
Canon Image Challenge13-Mar-2021 04:05
Exceptional detail, will have my vote, strong possibility of 1+. Paul
Sue Anne Rush13-Mar-2021 03:51
Excellent macro and well stacked. V