focus stacking

Focus stacking again – VoR at Devil’s Bridge

An exercise to see how good a result I could achieve in focus stacking some images, hand-held without a tripod. The technique chosen using Auto ISO, with Aperture Priority set at f22, at a fixed 64mm focal length was to use Auto-Focus and half-depress the shutter to focus on immediate foreground, then move focus point, […]

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Foreground interest -3 (with focus stacking)

Focus stacking

Volunteering to do a short spot on focus stacking at a u3a afternoon Photography session yesterday, I showed the following sequence of pictures of some orchids using a tripod and a macro lens … [Please note I didn’t edit the images prior to applying the software which I should have done. I could have removed

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Well I never!

Foreground interest in Landscape Photography

That was the challenge set to the u3a afternoon Photography Group. I wasn’t sure I was going to meet the deadline to submit some shots, but did manage a trip down The Bay – just-in-time. The featured image (above) has nothing to do with foregrounds, but everything to do with clever perspective and creativity. There’s

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