Thanks, Jostein. Plus, I was able to take my cake and eat it too! (And
it was delicious.)
As I recall I was about 3-4 feet away. I couldn't have been too far
because my office/studio isn't very wide.
-bmw
On 11-04-20 9:28 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
Nice cake, Bruce. What was your working distance on this one?
... And the PDML enablement gremlins has charged again. While Bruce
wrote the below, I was out buying this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554343-REG/Manfrotto_454_454_Micrometric_Positioning_Sliding.html
Though not at B&H... :-)
Jostein
2011/4/20 Bruce Walker<bruce.wal...@gmail.com>:
Here's a cake "landscape" :-) that I focus-stacked (in an attempt) to get
complete front-to-back focus ...
http://goo.gl/YBbBg
This was done from 3 shots through a DA* 50-135 @ 135 at f/8 on my K20D.
The cake was lit with an AF-540FGZ on wireless in an 18" softbox. (I used a
2nd 540 to blow out the wall behind the cake.)
Despite being f/8, the DoF was only about 25% of the depth of the cake. I
manually focused to three planes: front, middle and rear. In hindsight I
should have done 4 or 5 shots as you can see that the surface between the
middle and rear is in soft focus.
These shots were pulled into PS as one image with 3 layers. I ran Auto-Align
Layers then Auto-Blend Layers to get the most in-focus parts of each layer.
Auto-Align Layers takes care of the slight differences in size due to focus
breathing, etc. Luckily the DA* 50-135 doesn't seem to suffer much from
that.
-bmw
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