Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Paul for explaining. This is truly phenomenal work you present here. Aren't you local to the Bay Area? I'd love to pick up brain about this.... On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > > You do stitching AND multi-focus hand held?! Do you do at the same time > > often or never/rarely? > > I do both often. All were hand held in the Paris-Boston trip. Tripod > works better, but the 35mm focal length stitches very well in PS. > That's one of many reasons I favor it in a one-lens outfit. > > With respect to multi-focus shots, particularly if there is a simple > dual focus -- close and infinity -- one can shoot, move to the > infinity stop, and take the second shot very quickly without much > movement. > > I've come up with a workflow to trace the outline of the close subject > with the eraser at about 12 pixels that makes the dual focus merging > much easier. It's all manually done, but I do rely on PS's > Edit>Auto-align-layers. There, if there is a major feature that > changed between frames it can be erased from the out of focus frame to > avoid it throwing off the alignment. > > I've also found that the auto-ISO function, with the slowest speed > setting up to the max 1/125, works very well with the 35mm, but I > often check the histogram and move to manual if the scene is high > contrast. Most, however, was simple point and shoot. The rather > simple metering system works surprisingly well. > > I might add that some of the dual focus shots were needed due to using > f/2.8 or f/4 in dark shots where the DOF would be shallow. > > The ability to do "point and shoot" and then be able to print at 22x28 > with what we would have considered "large format" quality in the past > is just amazing to me after years of carrying slow, heavy film > cameras. Add available light evening street shooting, and this outfit > was really a fun one to carry around. (I eagerly await a high quality > 80 - 100,000 ISO sensor in a future electronic view finder M!) > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>