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This was an experiment I have been meaning to do for a while. The subject is a glass paperweight that is one of my wife's favourite possessions. I have tried to photograph it before, using single shots, but was not really happy with the results. To my delight, my wife was rather pleased this time round.
I used an Olympus 60mm macro on a tripod-mounted Panasonic G80 to capture sets of natural light focus bracket images, the closest set being almost 1:1. I set the camera to capture 200 images for each bracket set at f/2.8, with an increment of +3 between shots (on a scale of +1, successive shots very close together, to +10, relatively far apart), with the focus sequence running outwards from close to far. I used manual focus and set the focus to a bit nearer than anything I wanted to focus on. I let the capture run until it had obviously passed the furthest thing I wanted in focus, or for the full 200 shots. I shot JPEG as the G80 buffer only holds 45 or so raw files and exceeding that would have slowed the capture process down too much for my taste.
I loaded each bracket set into Helicon Focus and removed the images that were in front of and beyond what I was interested in. I used the stacking method and number of images shown below for each scene. I exported the stacked images as JPEG and did various global and local adjustments to them in Lightroom.
There are 1300 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.
#1 - 168 images, Depth Map method
1263 1 2017_12_14 Paperweight 1 FB 168i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2 - 54 images, Pyramid method
1263 2 2017_12_14 Paperweight3 FB 54i F2.8 (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3 - 42 images, Depth Map method
1263 3 2017_12_14 Paperweight4 FB 42i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 - 87 images, Depth Map method
1263 4 2017_12_14 Paperweight5 FB 87i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 - 99 images, Pyramid method
1263 5 2017_12_14 Paperweight6 FB 99i (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 - 90 images, Pyramid method
1263 6 2017_12_14 Paperweight7 FB90 F2.8 (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
I used an Olympus 60mm macro on a tripod-mounted Panasonic G80 to capture sets of natural light focus bracket images, the closest set being almost 1:1. I set the camera to capture 200 images for each bracket set at f/2.8, with an increment of +3 between shots (on a scale of +1, successive shots very close together, to +10, relatively far apart), with the focus sequence running outwards from close to far. I used manual focus and set the focus to a bit nearer than anything I wanted to focus on. I let the capture run until it had obviously passed the furthest thing I wanted in focus, or for the full 200 shots. I shot JPEG as the G80 buffer only holds 45 or so raw files and exceeding that would have slowed the capture process down too much for my taste.
I loaded each bracket set into Helicon Focus and removed the images that were in front of and beyond what I was interested in. I used the stacking method and number of images shown below for each scene. I exported the stacked images as JPEG and did various global and local adjustments to them in Lightroom.
There are 1300 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.
#1 - 168 images, Depth Map method
1263 1 2017_12_14 Paperweight 1 FB 168i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2 - 54 images, Pyramid method
1263 2 2017_12_14 Paperweight3 FB 54i F2.8 (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3 - 42 images, Depth Map method
1263 3 2017_12_14 Paperweight4 FB 42i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 - 87 images, Depth Map method
1263 4 2017_12_14 Paperweight5 FB 87i F2.8 (B,Radius4,Smoothing2) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 - 99 images, Pyramid method
1263 5 2017_12_14 Paperweight6 FB 99i (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 - 90 images, Pyramid method
1263 6 2017_12_14 Paperweight7 FB90 F2.8 (C) LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr