{"id":674,"date":"2013-06-14T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2018-04-07T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:53:24","slug":"day-106-spotmatic-non-macro-focus-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/day-106-spotmatic-non-macro-focus-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 106 &#8211; Spotmatic Non-Macro Focus Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cameraiamera.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-675\" src=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cameraiamera-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"cameraiamera\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cameraiamera-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cameraiamera-785x522.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dad suggested that I go into a little more detail about how I&#8217;m doing these focus stacks.\u00a0 Obviously you can just Google <a title=\"focus stack\" href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=stack+focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">focus stacks<\/a> and follow the instructions, but I have an adjusted method that seems to work. Whereas some of the walkthoughs want 3-10 pictures, I use in the neighborhood of 50.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll need a tripod, computer with Photoshop (more horsepower = less waiting) and either a camera with a continuous shoot option or a lot of patience.<\/p>\n<p>1. set up your tripod, frame your subject as you normally would.<br \/>\n2. switch to manual and roll your focus all the way out.<br \/>\n3. shooting continuously, slowly roll the focus all the way in. if you aren&#8217;t shooting continuously, be diligent in slowly incrementing your focus change. take as many pictures as you feel necessary, but remember more data is better.<br \/>\n4. copy the photos to your computer<br \/>\n5. i&#8217;m using CS5. Open it and go to File &#8211; Scripts and Load Files into Stack&#8230;<br \/>\n6. browse to your photos and select all the photos for the project.<br \/>\n7. make sure any Align Photos option is checked and click Okay. The more pictures you have, the longer this will take.<br \/>\n8. once the Load into Stack and Align operations are done, select all the layers in the layer viewer.<br \/>\n9. click Edit, then Auto-Blend Layers&#8230; and choose the stack option. Make sure Seamless is checked and click Okay.<br \/>\n10. Wait. This will take a while.\u00a0 Crop the resulting image, save as a jpeg and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad suggested that I go into a little more detail about how I&#8217;m doing these focus stacks.\u00a0 Obviously you can just Google focus stacks and follow the instructions, but I have an adjusted method that seems to work. Whereas some of the walkthoughs want 3-10 pictures, I use in the neighborhood of 50.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,345,338,347,346,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stillwellgray.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}