That's well done. I would never have guessed it was a composite. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11-04-20 6:02 AM, AlunFoto wrote: >> >> 2011/4/20 AlunFoto<alunf...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> With landscapes it's different of course... :-) >> >> Sorry, forgot something there. I believe that when shifting the focus >> of a lens, one _might_ also change the magnification, distortion, etc. >> depending on the lens design. So stacking shots may be more tricky >> than in the case of macro. But for landscapes you can still get a very >> long way by calculating the total DOF and focus manually. >> >> Besides, I get the impression that this guy use wide-angle lenses (a >> 35mm on 645D = a 18mm on APS-C). Assuming that's what he used for the >> deep perspective shots I believe f/11 will give him enough DOF for any >> of them. >> >> Jostein > > 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 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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