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So, I thought I'd try out a little stacking, with a difference....
Set up the camera on a tripod in the dining room and a Mahonia flower nailed to the table, and took nearly 30 high resolution (50MP JPEGS) and see where I got too...
The image:
There's a little bit of ghosting from the stacking program (Zerene Stacker) but overall I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome. The original DoF was around 2mm but the stacked image is around 70mm in depth - I haven't measured this exactly as your maths will tell!
The camera was set to High Resolution Image, E-M1ii
Lens was set to 1:1 Olympus 60mm Macro and F8
Overall this took me about 5 hours to produce this photo, as I had to learn the new software and the stacking is done manually, after a few attempts. Each attempt to produce an image took around an hour, as each of the 30 photos took nearly 30s to take, the copying, and stacking then took another 30m or so... So this is my final of 7 attempts today - what do you think of the result?
I did one stack using .ORF files so that I could see what the workflow was like, and this increased to work considerably, but allowed for a more latitude on the post processing, as you could change the levels on each individual photo and then export them as JPEGs for the stacking software to process.
For those that regularly perform stacks, is there a better software suite than Zerene to use? I've just been using the free 30 day trial so far. (for a Mac running the latest OS)
Set up the camera on a tripod in the dining room and a Mahonia flower nailed to the table, and took nearly 30 high resolution (50MP JPEGS) and see where I got too...
The image:
There's a little bit of ghosting from the stacking program (Zerene Stacker) but overall I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome. The original DoF was around 2mm but the stacked image is around 70mm in depth - I haven't measured this exactly as your maths will tell!
The camera was set to High Resolution Image, E-M1ii
Lens was set to 1:1 Olympus 60mm Macro and F8
Overall this took me about 5 hours to produce this photo, as I had to learn the new software and the stacking is done manually, after a few attempts. Each attempt to produce an image took around an hour, as each of the 30 photos took nearly 30s to take, the copying, and stacking then took another 30m or so... So this is my final of 7 attempts today - what do you think of the result?
I did one stack using .ORF files so that I could see what the workflow was like, and this increased to work considerably, but allowed for a more latitude on the post processing, as you could change the levels on each individual photo and then export them as JPEGs for the stacking software to process.
For those that regularly perform stacks, is there a better software suite than Zerene to use? I've just been using the free 30 day trial so far. (for a Mac running the latest OS)
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