Tiny Format Image Stacking

[Tin Can]

Since my new NIKON Z can shoot up to 300 stacking images, I am going to try to learn this

The camera only shoots, Photoshop is necessary, which also means any image size may work too!

Here is Photoshop Image Stacks (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/image-stacks.html) instructions

and Z fc, Instructions for shooting stacks (https://onlinemanual.nikonimglib.com/zfc/en/#!/09-03-33)

I also just looked at the heavily redacted last thread on stacking

bad juju

[Dan Fromm]

There are other stacking programs, PS isn't the only one. The museum photo lab I use has Nikon DSLRs, Nikon Capture Pro 2 and Helicon stacker.

[Tin Can]

Good to know, but I don't use them yet

Any advantages I should know of?

Years ago Nikon Capture Pro seemed terrible


There are other stacking programs, PS isn't the only one. The museum photo lab I use has Nikon DSLRs, Nikon Capture Pro 2 and Helicon stacker.

[Oren Grad]

There are other stacking programs, PS isn't the only one....

The two dedicated programs that I've seen mentioned most frequently by hard-core users are Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker.

[Tin Can]

Thanks Oren

I looked at them, Helicon is over the top, unlimited images in stack!

One step at a time, meaning use what I have now




The two dedicated programs that I've seen mentioned most frequently by hard-core users are Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker.

[Timmyjoe]

Stacking seems like a lot of work. What is the big advantage of stacking?

Best,
-Tim

[Tin Can]

Sharp DOF beyonding

[John Layton]

Mr. Can I'm very curious about how your Nikon Z is set up for this. Maybe you set the near-to-far parameters along with a given aperture value and the camera takes it from there - with a single press of the shutter button? Three hundred stacks in for a single image? Like...a fly's eye occupying a third of the foreground...maybe with a receding field of flowers leading to a mountain range, all in "perfect" focus - something like that? Hmmm...or maybe that fly has just landed on a woman's big toe? Am suddenly just a little intrigued by all this! (then again...what if that fly decides, during the sequence...that it's had enough and leaves?)

[r.e.]

Stacking seems like a lot of work. What is the big advantage of stacking?

Best,
-Tim

How I Focus Stack


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR--G-rjl1k&t=2s

[r.e.]

How I Focus Stack


Making the original images before they were stacked (go to 4:40):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un_LjLBB9M4

[Tin Can]

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/tips-and-techniques/focus-shift-the-basics-stacking-focus.htmland we can shoot multiple images with one shutter trip. then mix it up

I am learning, just now my local Digi printer had these tips, "Set your camera so that it shoots groups of 3 or more images with each pressing of the shutter release.
Select the best of each picture group after your shoot."

[Tin Can]

Go to Nikon website, lots of tips

[Tin Can]

Please stop waving product around, we can't see what anything is

Lot's of tuberes do this

[Willie]

I know that Pt/Pd specialist Tillman Crane used Fuji digital cameras and Focus Stacking for some of his prints. Shoots digital, does the Helicon Focus program and makes digitally enlarged negatives for the prints. Some really nice images.
https://www.tillmancrane.com/

[Peter De Smidt]

Good videos. For wide angle landscapes, I've found that 3-5 images is enough, and I use his method of manually blending. For closeups, though, it takes many more images, and for that I find Zerene Stacker to be my favorite. It's not as slick an interface as Helicon Focus, but it very functional, and Rik, the creator, is incredibly helpful.