Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tarek. I took 4 (well, more, but only used 4) shots at slightly different focus points and then CS5 was used to blend them together into one image. CS5 looks at each frame and decides which sections are sharper than the same sections on the other frames, and masks to show the greatest sharpness. It usually works very well, but sometimes you have to go and fudge with the mask layers a bit. The main advantages of this is that you can use the lens moderately stopped down, say 5.6, where performance is at its peak, and get more effective Depth of Field. And it also retains the shallow DOF effect that you would not get if you stopped down to say f22. The background is nicely blurred with an extended DOF where you want it. There was one drawback in using LR4 Beta with CS5. I first worked on the images in LR4 to adjust exposure, then when I went to transfer them to CS5 I was told I could not do that because Adobe Raw 7 was needed. Well, that is not available as a public beta (or at least I could not find it), so they reverted to their RAW parameters and I merged them, then processed the combined TIFF file in LR4 Beta after the merge. Not my usual workflow, but it turned out pretty good. Aram -----Original Message----- From: Tarek Charara Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:26 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday Flowers, Aram Magnificent! but what do you mean with "composite of 4 frames"? All the best from Paris! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 20 janv. 2012 ? 19:12, Aram Langhans a ?crit : > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/W2011/fl/orchid-9598-Edit.jpg.html > A composite of 4 frames, then softened up a bit in Lightroom 4. Sometimes > that 2.8 APO is just too sharp. View Large, plesae