Sunday, December 07, 2008
Sharp - Unlimited Depth of Field on the flower
Last Summer I photographed this roadside lily that had been transplanted into a neighbors yard. There were 11 photographs made of the flower. Each shot was focused on a different segment of the flower. In Photoshop CS4 I first used the Auto Align Layers and then ran the Auto Blend Layers. A mask was made for each photograph (each image was placed on a separate layer) and this image was the final result. When doing the photography used an f-stop the gave me the best quality of focus for the lens even though the lens was not stopped down for a greater depth of field. I had a controlled condition with no movement of the flower as I re-focused for each shot.
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Last Summer I photographed this roadside lily that had been transplanted into a neighbors yard. There were 11 photographs made of the flower. Each shot was focused on a different segment of the flower. In Photoshop CS4 I first used the Auto Align Layers and then ran the Auto Blend Layers. A mask was made for each photograph (each image was placed on a separate layer) and this image was the final result. When doing the photography used an f-stop the gave me the best quality of focus for the lens even though the lens was not stopped down for a greater depth of field. I had a controlled condition with no movement of the flower as I re-focused for each shot.
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