Steel Salt & Pepper

[armando_m]

10 images focus stack

Done with the zerene stacker trial , took me maybe 2.5 hrs from the first shot to this thread with dinner in between

For a first trial I think I got nice results, only scale alignment

Manual focus with live view at 100% magnification and still I missed some focus, because the forward ball does not look as sharp on the closest end

comments ?

Thanks for watching

[n8]

The salt looks good, but there seems to be some ghosting or something odd on the peppercorns. Same with the upper edges of the steel balls.

[Anbesol]

very cool concept and well executed. But I think the reflections on the steel are weak. I think this image would be a lot nicer with a better reflection in the steel balls.

The salt and pepper look great.

And 2.5 hrs "with dinner in between" is a pretty vague description. Dinner, at least for me, can be anywhere between 8 minutes and 3 hours.

[JohnKokWithAdSLR]

the steel balls if they are more shiny like those christmas ads will definitely add to the photo haha

otherwise its still a good picture =)

[armando_m]

n8 , the ghosting I think maybe my PP need to look at the unprocessed image from zerene
Edit: looked at the zerene oputput , it does have the ghosting seems to be some vertical shift between the images, I'll try to do x,y alignment perhaps it can make it go away,
also looking at 100% there are at least another 2 missing shots so the pepper is 100% in focus

Anbesol, thanks, setup was kind of quick, my main intention was to use the focus stacking sfw, by having dinner, I should say, it limited me to using 1 hand while continuing to use the computer maybe 20 mins

John, thanks for you comment

[Anbesol]

safe for work? So ****ing what? What is SFW mean in that context? lol Was it response to the dinner comment.

[gahspidy]

At this size and compression, I can say that it all looks good from front to back although I do see a hint of some ghosting as was pointed out. Looking forward to seeing some more of what you can do with this

[arne saknussen]

Having attempted shots like this (I have yet to stack photos though), I can applaud your results. I do hope you keep sharing future shots utilizing this process.

[armando_m]

safe for work? So ****ing what? What is SFW mean in that context? lol Was it response to the dinner comment.

i meant software

[armando_m]

Thanks Gary and Arne

[Anbesol]

ah lol okay that makes sense.

[ksbryan0]

I, too, am looking forward to see more of your focus stacking work. I'm really intrigued by the process, but not sure I have your patience Armando. Nice work!