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FOCUS STACKING AFFINITY PHOTO MOD
FOCUS STACKING AFFINITY PHOTO SERIAL

But this time it’s not about details, but about the sharpness of the subject. If I want to capture the details even more granularly, I even take 5 shots with different exposures instead of our exemplary 3 shots.įocus Stacking also describes a workflow in which I combine several images into one image. Thus I get perfect visibility of all details, no matter if in a dark, normal or light area of the motive.

Thereby I reject the overexposed and underexposed areas and only assemble my picture from the well taken components. The three photos I took are now combined to one picture in the HDR workflow.

Third shot underexposed: Bright areas of the subject are clearly visible, dark and normal areas are underexposed.

Second shot normally exposed: Center areas of the subject are clearly visible, bright and dark areas are overexposed or underexposed.

First shot overexposed: Dark areas of the subject are taken clearly visible, bright and normal areas are overexposed.

For simplicity’s sake we assume three pictures.īy using different exposure settings of the camera I take three pictures:

HDR photos are characterized by a high level of detail. Normally I take 5 or at least 3 pictures of the same subject for an HDR image. For everyone else, here is a rudimentary explanation: If you know what HDR and Focus-Stacking is, you can skip this paragraph. So far I’ve always had to choose one or the other kind of image editing, but can’t we also create an image that consists of both HDR and Focus Stacking? Yes we can. These two functions let us create beautiful images. When I used the Hugin GUI and "align image stack" I was able to get better results, but it was not obvious to me which tool and which parameters were actually used to get it.Īlso (as written in the comment), I was able to get an acceptable result from Affinity Photo.I love Affinity Photos features to create HDR shots and focus stacks. What it needed to make alignment succeed? Notes Well, I should note that my version of align_image_stack came from Hugin 20.20.0.īasically I'd like to know what causes the failure, or in other words: Interestingly when aligning the scaled-down shots, the result is not as terrible as for the original shots, but still not what I had hoped for: You should see that the result is even worse than the original shots. Then the output of align_image_stack -v -t48 -m -a out- _1090574.JPG _1090575.JPG _1090576.JPG for the original images (also scaled down):

FOCUS STACKING AFFINITY PHOTO SERIAL

Maybe the metadata related to angle and acceleration wasn't updated for serial shots, however. I'll present an example that failed significantly with the original images however for size reasons I'm presenting scaled-down images here:Įxiftool reports these metadata for the images (edited for shortness): Common for all shots:

So I tried align_image_stack -v -t160 -m -a test- 9574.JPG 9575.JPG 9576.JPG following Pat David: Focus Stacking Macro Photos (Enfuse), but the result failed as well.

FOCUS STACKING AFFINITY PHOTO MOD

My first series had been using the electronic shutter, and the shots seem to suffer from a significant rolling shutter effect, so I tried to use those shot with the mechanical shutter.įirst I tried to align them using different layers in difference mod in GIMP, but failed to align them to the degree I had wished for. The original idea was that the small shake of hand could be used in combination for focus stacking.Īccording to the situation the images should have 3D rotation as well as 3D translation despite of that the subject may have moved with the wind also. I made a few serial shots (at a rate of roughly 5 shots per second) using a new macro lens without image stabilizer or tripod.