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Hi all,
To set the scale I am working at, here is a pic of the flower next to my finger print:
I setup in my studio (garden shed) with a GODOX V1 as an off camera flash. I decided on this setup after much testing of various diffusors:
The subject flower is so small I thought I could get a sharp pic of the whole flower with a higher aperture (f40):
As you can see that did not work. I did try at f16 but it was not much better.
I started Focus stacking at f5.1 and 20 images:
Dont you love a good halo
. I applied a 1 stop exposure compensation and tried again:
Halo not as obvious but still a bit unsharp.
So tried again with the following settings:
Aperture - F5
40 Image stack
Focus step - 1
Delay - 3 seconds
Exposure Compensation minus 1.7
Helicon Focus render settings:
Final result:
All in all a very informative little session.
Any and all comments welcome.
CHEERS
JBO
To set the scale I am working at, here is a pic of the flower next to my finger print:
I setup in my studio (garden shed) with a GODOX V1 as an off camera flash. I decided on this setup after much testing of various diffusors:
The subject flower is so small I thought I could get a sharp pic of the whole flower with a higher aperture (f40):
As you can see that did not work. I did try at f16 but it was not much better.
I started Focus stacking at f5.1 and 20 images:
Dont you love a good halo

Halo not as obvious but still a bit unsharp.
So tried again with the following settings:
Aperture - F5
40 Image stack
Focus step - 1
Delay - 3 seconds
Exposure Compensation minus 1.7
Helicon Focus render settings:
Final result:
All in all a very informative little session.
Any and all comments welcome.
CHEERS
JBO