[Leica] IMG: rose, focus stacked

[Frank Filippone]

What a beautiful shot!  Love it....

For the masses..... Adam's GFX has built in focus stacking SW. You input 
the number of shots you wish to take, the closest and furthest image 
points, hit a button, and the camera does the rest....  the camera 
figures out what the optimum focus points are for each stacked photo.

ITOD ( in the old days) or if YOUR camera does not have the built in SW, 
you had to do all of this manually.... Infinitely hard to calculate ( or 
guess)..... I have done it once with success, and myriad of times with 
abject failure.

Nicely seen, nicely executed and a beautiful subject..  Only the results 
count... and this is a beauty.

On 4/27/2020 1:47 PM, Adam Bridge via LUG wrote:
> Here’s my first attempt at focus stacking with large images:
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Flowers/Studies/i-CSM44KP/A>
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> Shot with a Fujifilm GFX100. 50 images show in “focus bracketing” mode, electronic shutter.
>
> I only had a few minutes to work before the breeze came up.
>
> There are issues in a few places but I’ll figure out the software Real Soon Now. <grin>
>
> The stacking was done with Helicon Focus. It’s an excellent example of how to use the GPU effectively! It allows the output to be saved as a DNG file which allows greater latitude in development.
>
> In Lightroom I used the ETERNA color profile. Many of the possible profiles, included the default Adobe profile, were simply too vivid compared to the flower I actually saw. That seems to be a trend for the handling of this camera by Adobe - they must have been needing more vibrancy or something.
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> Comments and thoughts most welcome.
>
> Adam Bridge