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Hiya, I'm learning about focus stacking, I like this photo but there was a lot of ghosting around the feather, any tips would be appreciated, using Lightroom and Ryan's raw tools.

Dan :)

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Have a look at Macro studio for stacking, very simple to use and has a lot of features. Currently £79 one-off with free updates, there's also a 30 day trial.

This one is 24 frames stacked in MS and edited in LR.

Tethered by nigel addecott, on Flickr
 
mex said:
Have a look at Macro studio for stacking, very simple to use and has a lot of features. Currently £79 one-off with free updates, there's also a 30 day trial.

This one is 24 frames stacked in MS and edited in LR.

Tethered by nigel addecott, on Flickr
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Wow, so detailed! Thanks for sharing. I currently use Ryan's raw tools plugin on lightroom. I'll change to that when I can afford it :)
 
I tried focus stacking with my digital microscope to get a high power image of a flies ankle sadly the focus control was far to crude to manage more than 5 images to stack
House fly ankle by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Results were a bit better with some macro shots of a large scorpion.
black scorpion 2 stack by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

It's probably 10 years since I tried focus stacking, probably time to try it again
 
I have played with stacking in photoshop, then after the frustration of having to hand edit the stack tried a couple of software packs - now use a different shoot process to get the effect I want - this was in PS with abit of a twiddle

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Marasmius hudsonii - not stacked - single frame. I got tired of editing errors in the stacked image- completely agree Affinity is better than PS but i try to get the required in focus i want in 1 frame now :) - thats about 1/2 of a holly leaf and aprox 1/4 of the full frame

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BirdingDan said:
Hiya, I'm learning about focus stacking, I like this photo but there was a lot of ghosting around the feather, any tips would be appreciated, using Lightroom and Ryan's raw tools.

Dan :)

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Just my tips
Good Tripod - flash with defuser, (I used a home made one) -I used a 100mm MF lens, (manually micro adjust distances) - experiment with different f setting - try f16, (that's why flash is needed) - at least 5 shots - but sometimes 10, but the more the merrier depending on the subject and the DoF you want - PS provides basic stacking software - but other apps are better..........if using a DSLR - mirror up
Takes some time to get even a reasonable shot - can be very frustrating - I have only used focus stacking for macro shots

not done much photography recently, so a bit "rusty"
 
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BillN_33 said:
Just my tips
Good Tripod - flash with defuser, (I used a home made one) -I used a 100mm MF lens, (manually micro adjust distances) - experiment with different f setting - try f16, (that's why flash is needed) - at least 5 shots - but sometimes 10, but the more the merrier depending on the subject and the DoF you want - PS provides basic stacking software - but other apps are better..........if using a DSLR - mirror up
Takes some time to get even a reasonable shot - can be very frustrating
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add to that - use a remote release and Mirror up ( if not a mirrorless camera ) for each shot - no ( or very little ) vibration or camera movement to compensate for then.
 
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