Macro: Mushrooms / Pilze

[johannpiber]

Today I learned something new.

Heute habe ich etwas Neues gelernt.

Macro: Mushrooms / Pilze
^{Focus Stacking}

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM - 13 Images}

I've learned that good macro photos with focus stacking are not that easy to take. Although I have often worked with Focus Stacking, but mostly only with landscape photos to get the photo from front to back consistently sharp.

Ich habe gelernt, dass gute Makro Fotos mit Focus Stacking gar nicht so einfach zu fotografieren sind. Zwar habe ich schon des öfteren mit Focus Stacking gearbeitet, aber meistens nur mit Landschaftsfotos, um das Foto von vorne bis hinten, also durchgängig scharf zu bekommen.

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM - 6 Images}

Very simply explained: Focus Stacking (Focus bracketing) means to take several or even many pictures, each with a different focus point, so that on each picture another area of the photo is sharp. These photos are then imported as layers in an image editor and only the sharp area of each image is displayed.

Sehr einfach erklärt: Beim Focus Stacking (Focus Bracketing) werden mehrere oder auch viele Bilder mit jeweils verändertem Fokusierpunkt aufgenommen, so dass auf jedem Bild ein anderer Bereich des Fotos scharf ist. Diese Einzelbilder werden dann in einem Bildbearbeitungsprogramm als Ebenen importiert und von jedem Bild nur der scharfe Bereich eingeblendet.

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^{Canon EOS R | SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM - 16 Images}

So easy - so difficult, because if you're not careful, then some areas might not be sharp on any photo, as you can see it on my macros, if they are viewed in full resolution.

So einfach - so schwierig, denn wenn man nicht genau aufpasst, dann entstehen zwischendurch Bereiche, welche auf keinem Foto scharf sind, wie man es auf meinen Makros auch erkennen kann, wenn diese in voller Auflösung angeschaut werden.

Information

These pictures were taken during my last hikes in Slovenia and Carinthia.

Diese Fotos habe ich während meiner letzten Wanderungen in Slowenien und in Kärnten gemacht.

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Comments

[tattoodjay]

Awesoem shots Photo stacking is somethign I have not tried yet, I must give it a go sometime

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Thank you very much 🙂

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[johannpiber]

These are more things for the winter, when I cannot go outside photographing. But I have to practice a lot, because there are so many blurred areas on the photos, but luckily, most are not visible in these downsized versions 😉

Thanks for your nice comment and for the trendo ... good morning JJ, have a great day 🙂
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[tattoodjay]

Gidday mate
I am realizing I am turning into a fair weather photography 😂 I take so few shots when it’s grey or damp days and seldom indoors

Have you seen the new Curate thing Tipu is adding looks interesting

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[johannpiber]

Gidday JJ 🙂

I like to photograph when the weather is fine, but I don't mind a cloudy sky. I don't go out when it's raining. My camera and the lenses are somehow water resistant, but I don't want to test it if not neccessary.

That new tipu project sounds nice, but I haven't read it all yet - ocdb has done it's job well. We will see how it turns out. Right now I am satisfied with my upvotes and I don't have to pay for them :)
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Yes I dont mind cloudy infact I prefer cloudy skies its the rain I also avoid I dont mind it myself but I dont like to get my camera wet I dont trust water resistant either

I skim read the tipu details and its a good idea, I haven’t seen what o do is doing but so far I tam kind of liking the effect of the HF

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Although I was not very amused in the beginning, I begin to like it, and I do hope, that it gets even better.
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splendid. I love most #3 and, especially, #2. very cool capture.

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[qwerrie]

I started doing this, just didnt know its named so. how many takes do you perform? I limit myself to two GRIP changes, sometimes do the 3rd change of focus, but mostly 2 focusing points, and 2-3-4 takes. it helps to enlarge sharp zone from 2mm to 2-3 mm -- a huge leap forward, hehe!

[johannpiber]

I have written the numbers of photos I have taken below the images - a few more than you do, but next time I will take fewer photos with smaller aperture. It's easier with landscape images ;)
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[qwerrie]

wow! i didnt notice the figures. 10? 16? it is too much to me, how do you stitch them together? I afraid its not possible in manual mode (as I do). maybe its some AI software doing the job? sorry if I ask too much, but this is my weak spot, I feel I may get some new know-how here.

or maybe its an option withing your camera? my friend @bambuka told me his full-frame Sony is capable of making panoramas automatically (in a special mode, I forgot the name).

[johannpiber]

Never mind @qwerrie 🙂
I use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Photoshop does the job for me, because doing it manual would be a hard work, as you say. Ob course, after the automatic job, that Photoshop does, I still have to look for blurred parts and do some manual editings. Photoshop does a good job, but it is not perfect ;)
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Amazing sharpness in all photos

[johannpiber]

Thank you so much, @uzairk, but you haven't seen the full size photos 😉
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Great and fine details in the shots wow

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Thank you very much for your nice comment and that you like the photos, @cityslicker, but on the fullsize photos you can see, what I meant - these downsized photos look quite ok 😉
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~absolutely stunning macro shots! very enjoyable to look at! bravo! =)

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Terrific macro shots. I especially like the composition of the last photo.

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[johannpiber]

Thank you so much for your kind comment, @momzillanc, also for the resteem 🙂
There was not so much composition to do with the last shot - this mushroom grows on a mossy tree and this was the only side where I could place my tripod. The blurred thing in front is a branch of the tree ;)
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[cezary-io]

It seems like quite complicated process, or is it done automatically by the editing software?
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[johannpiber]

Thank you very much that you like the photos, @cezary-io 🙂
These were my first serious tests with macro focus stacking. I have done it before, but just for fun ;)
90 percent is done automatically by Photoshop and the rest is looking through the processed image and do some manual editing, where Photoshop hasn't done a good job ;)
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[manorvillemike]

Image stacking is cool... Nothing like clarity...

[johannpiber]

Thank you for your kind comment @manorvillemike, I have to practice a lot to get the macros really clear.
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[rossfletcher]

That second one is so weird and wonderful! Focus stacking is pretty cool! I guess you can tell i don't know how to do it lol :)

[johannpiber]

Thank you so much Ross 🙂
The macro lens has such a small depth of field, that I sometimes try the same as with landscapes (3 photos with foreground, midground and background sharp), but I make many more shots to have everything in focus. But that's not so easy and I have to practice it a lot more to get results which I like more.
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It's a great technique. I'm sure you will master it!

[johannpiber]

Maybe, we'll see after a lot of following photos.
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[janton]

Howdy sir johannpiber! Now you are forcing me to learn stuff. I never heard of focus stacking before.

[johannpiber]

Haha, I have always said, that Steemit & Co are good for education 🙂

Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking

The starting point for focus stacking is a series of images captured at different focus distances; in each image different areas of the sample will be in focus. While none of these images has the sample entirely in focus they collectively contain all the data required to generate an image which has all parts of the sample in focus.

Sorry for copy&paste, but I couldn't have explained it better ;) lol
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Focus stacking
Focus stacking (also known as focal plane merging and z-stacking or focus blending) is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images. Focus stacking can be used in any situation where individual images have a very shallow depth of field; macro photography and optical microscopy are two typical examples. Focus stacking can also be useful in landscape photography.
Focus stacking offers flexibility: since it is a computational technique, images with several different depths of field can be generated in post-processing and compared for best artistic merit or scientific clarity.

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[janton]

That is a great explanation sir johannpiber but I think you described it very well in your post!

[johannpiber]

Oh, I thought, you didn't read my post ;) lol
I just wanted to add a kind of official explanation for you 🙂
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[janton]

lol..hey if people do not read your posts they have no excuse because yours are not long and are easy to read!

[johannpiber]

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