Another practice Stack Shot

canon400d

I have taken another practice stack shot Brian. I feel the eyes and the rear end is out of focus.
Am I doing this right or not?
I take three shots and manually do 1 and 2 on the master shot. I then on the second shot I do 3 and 4 and hit the setup box on the right hand side of the dialogue. The third shot I do 3 and 4 and then hit Macro and 'Do stack' and sit back and pray.




Kind regards
Bob

Lord Vetinari

Not bad Bob. Looks to me like you did not cover the entire DOF you wanted - ie you have missed some slices with the top of the head region and the near the rear end. I only use the manual realignment after running the stack first and seeing how it goes together first- If I end up with lots of double edges then I manually realign the pics.
Sounds like you are doing the realignment properly but you have to press the set and use params button after each use of the 3 & 4 points on all the slices except the master slice.
I would guess (depending on what aperture you were using) you would need about 6 slices to cover the entire DOF of that woodlouse at that angle.

Brian V.

Skippy

canon400d wrote:

I have taken another practice stack shot Brian. I feel the eyes and the rear end is out of focus.
Am I doing this right or not?
I take three shots and manually do 1 and 2 on the master shot. I then on the second shot I do 3 and 4 and hit the setup box on the right hand side of the dialogue. The third shot I do 3 and 4 and then hit Macro and 'Do stack' and sit back and pray.
http://canon400d.smugmug.com/photos/263438119_42TiU-L.jpg

Kind regards
Bob

Geezzz Bob, your becoming a techo-head
Smarty pants! ..... Skippy
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job3210

Nice try I know how hard it is to stack after practising myself.
Keep it up:D

canon400d

job3210 wrote:

Nice try I know how hard it is to stack after practising myself.
Keep it up:D

Thanks Skip for those kind remarks. I will keep practicing and will hopefully get there before I am too old.

Yes Job, it certainly is hard so don't give up, because Brian and Skippy give you all the help and support anyone could possibly wish for.

Regards
Bob

canon400d

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Not bad Bob. Looks to me like you did not cover the entire DOF you wanted - ie you have missed some slices with the top of the head region and the near the rear end. I only use the manual realignment after running the stack first and seeing how it goes together first- If I end up with lots of double edges then I manually realign the pics.
Sounds like you are doing the realignment properly but you have to press the set and use params button after each use of the 3 & 4 points on all the slices except the master slice.
I would guess (depending on what aperture you were using) you would need about 6 slices to cover the entire DOF of that woodlouse at that angle.

Brian V.

Thanks Brian, I will try again. I have been doing the manual before the stacking and have only pressed the set and use params button on only one slice. In this case the second slice. I was on 2x and 1/200 F9 ISO 200.
Cheers
Bob

canon400d

canon400d wrote:

Thanks Brian, I will try again. I have been doing the manual before the stacking and have only pressed the set and use params button on only one slice. In this case the second slice. I was on 2x and 1/200 F9 ISO 200.
Cheers
Bob

I have done the following screw stack using six slices manual alignment. In Manual mode at 1x 1/200 F11 ISO 200

Regards
Bob