what do you use to take your photos do you upload them straight or do some editing its something im trying to get better at
I take the pic with an interchangeable lens camera with a macro lens on it. In order to get the depth of field, I take a series of photos each at a slightly different focus setting, which the camera will do automatically, and then I combine the photos into a single image with image stacking software. A person could accomplish the same thing manually by adjusting focus for each step before using the stacking software, but this would be slow. The picture above is from about twenty separate photos.
This image was just stacked and exported to jpg for posting, I didn't do much editing.
In order to really clean up a stacked image to remove as many artifacts as possible, a person can spend hours on a single image. If you pixel peep the above image, you will see that some features are surrounded by a slightly blurry region which is caused by failure of the stacking software to combine the different levels of focus perfectly. These can usually be improved a lot by editing, but it is a flyshit out of pepper business, only worth the time if the photo is a gem.
Any digital camera with interchangeable lenses could be set up for this mischief, and I think lots of the recent ones will do focus stacking automatically. A good tripod is needed, and a macro focusing rail helps as well. Fully manual macro lenses can sometimes be had for not much money online, and can often be mounted on lots of cameras with appropriate adapters, so if a person already has the camera, it may not cost a lot to try the macro stuff. The stacking software is a bit pricey, but not too bad. There is free stuff out there, but it sucks, at least the stuff I tried does, and photoshop can do the job, sort of, but not as effectively, and only after a heck of a lot more work. Right now I am using Zerene Stacker as a trial freebie before deciding if or what version I would like to buy. It works incredibly well compared to the alternatives I have tried.
Let me know if I can help you get set up if you want to give it a try. Ditto for you
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