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30-OCT-2011 Robin Reid

Focus Practice

Rancho Bernardo, CA

This is a class assignment: photograph close-up several times (using a tripod) setting focus each time to capture each plane from front to back. Photoshop has a feature that aligns layers and aligns them for focus. Cool huh!


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Gary Winters07-Nov-2011 06:06
Makes for a lovely nativity scene...
Robin Reid02-Nov-2011 22:54
Exactly Don. You said the way it is done. A tripod is essential, keeping the same f/stop is must, and taking 3 to 5 shots at different focus its is the core the technique.
In Photoshop then load as layers, align the layers for position and then blend then as one stack.
don nieman01-Nov-2011 09:27
I don't understand the plane thing. Keep same f stop and then take series of images at different focus points then merge layers? Am I on the right track? Outcome looks sharp how ever you did it.
Pepe Zyman31-Oct-2011 21:01
Cool!
petesie31-Oct-2011 16:09
You have eclectic taste....and I want the St. Francis and the armidillo...although I get pretty angry with them for rooting up my flower beds looking for bugs.......bet you got the kiwi on you trip to N. Z. !
Guest 31-Oct-2011 05:04
Beautiful! V.
laine30-Oct-2011 22:17
I wonder do they talk among themselves at night ;)