Focus stacking (take two) coins

[Stormchase]

Ok, since the last one i posted i have learned a little more. I took off my uv filter this time for starters lol. Also I learned you get a lot of artifacts when you have multiple of the same focal leanths stacking on one an other. I had to find the problem shots and take them out one by one until it cleared up. Tonight took about 350 shots at F/8. Stacked about 5 times before i found the one that worked. The lighting was very warm (55 watt soft white bulb) so I cooled it down in PP.
This shot is 24 layers to keep as much in focus as possable. I noticed the bottom left has a little blur but I couldnt find the shot causing it so its there. The Apollo 11 coin has an odd texture to it but I went with it anyways. This has been a good learning expierance. Whacha think?

COINS

 

[BrianLy]

Doesn't look bad at all.

 

[j-digg]

Looks good, what source of info / tutorial did you follow? If any that is Ive been interested in focus stacking lately.

 

[reznap]

Just wanted to say good job! I might crop a tiny bit off the bottom because there's a blurry spot there on a quarter but everything else looks just about right on.

EDIT: I see you mentioned the blur... also 24 shots, damn that's great..

 

[mommy22]

Amazing. Seriously. How'd you do it? What program did you use?

 

[Raizels]

I'm liking!

 

[Stormchase]

cool thanks for the responces. I just did a little research on youtube to see how others are doing it. here is one i watched a couple times. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiEw4VCcYU[/ame]
I used CombineZM for the softwere because its free. You can use photoshop to do it as well but i have heard its more of a pain. Maybe soon I will be able to apply this in the field instead of my spare bedroom lol.

 

[ifi]

Looks a lot improved!

 

[supraman215]

Wow that is amazing.

 

[Ron Evers]

Very nice Storm. I have not been successful trying a stack. I should try again.

 

[BuS_RiDeR]

:thumbup:

 

[lunaaa]

i like it

 

[Stormchase]

Thanks everyone
Its fun to learn new things.

 

[NateS]

I would think it would be pretty easy to find the single frame that has the bottom two coins in focus and add them in as a layer mask or just cut and paste them as a new layer. Other than that, looks good.

 

[Stormchase]

I would think it would be pretty easy to find the single frame that has the bottom two coins in focus and add them in as a layer mask or just cut and paste them as a new layer. Other than that, looks good.

Yeah true but i spent tooo long putting it all together and i was tired (1:00am) so i called it a night and posted it real fast. I think i just missed the focus on it. I started with a F2.8 earlier in the night and changed it to F8 for this one. I was thinking that I would have a larger DoF then i did. After 3-4 shots I began to narrow my shots to keep them closer. But oh well right? I already spent the change lol so it was a one timer!