12/27/2023 0 Comments Helicon focus stacking softwareIn landscapes, the opposite is often required: foreground, middle ground and distance all needing to be nice and sharp (depending on your artistic wont, of course).įundamentally, DOF depends on the focal length of the lens, where you focus it and more importantly the f-stop you choose. Portraits often benefit from a nice sharp focus on the subject’s eye, but everything out of the plane of the face being out of focus so that backgrounds are blurred. (Then there are camera rails!)Ī narrow depth of field (DOF) has its pros and its cons in photography. There’s also a tool that lets you do the focusing on a bigger screen, like a tablet or computer, CamRanger, but you need a wireless tethering device. There’s also a tool for Canon dSLRs, DSLR Bracketeer, that lets you do the focus bracketing automatically and then you do the stacking in an app of your choice. There are several programs for focus stacking (Photoshop has it built in), Helicon Focus, Zerene Stacker, Picolay, and CombineZP (there are many others just search for focus stacking software). UPDATE: Been taking another look at this and applied focus stacking to my latest moth photo. UPDATE TO ANOTHER UPDATE: The Canon utility was hopeless, luckily I found a bit of open source software that takes back control much better and used it to focus stack yesterday morning’s moth and then combine the images, to much better effect.ĪNOTHER UPDATE: It seems that the Canon EOS Utility should allow me to automate the process focus bracketing with my 6D…just installing and will test with tomorrow’s moth…assuming there’s another stunning species to photograph…may give it a miss if it’s just another Clouded Drab.
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