Focus Stacking. Always interesting, and a great way to spice up those pix where you just can’t get enough Depth of Field with one shot. And it’s easy as…well it’s just easy.
The TL;DR: Creating a focus stack of a rock, as shown in this new tutorial video.
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Enter Exhibit A: A Rock. You may also call this a mineral, but technically it consists of Iron Pyrite and Quartz so ‘Rock’ may be the correct thing to call it. It is wonderfully shiny.
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So let’s take a shot at f8, which is a nice and sharp aperture on the D8100 and 105mm Macro I used for this shot. Check out the depth of field. Only some parts of the rock are in focus, and a lot of it are out of focus. This will not do.
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In ControlMyNikon, we’ll use the Focus Stacking workflow in live view to capture 25 images at f8, and ControlMyNikon will move the focus a bit between each shot. Then we’ll send these images out to Zerene Stacker for processing to create the final stacked image, which, after a bit of tweaking looks like this.
Check out the video showing how this was done. Also check out the nifty axial lighting setup I 3D printed just for shooting objects like this. Fun stuff!