So helpful. I bracket photos frequently, but have never refocused. Remembering to refocus and capture multiple images will be new for me. I use Affinity Photo - not photoshop - but I am sure the same tools are available. Something new to explore. Thank you for all you do.
I'm an experienced photographer with over 50 years practice. Lately, I noticed some of my landscapes were not sharp. I use back button focus and habitually press the assigned button just before reframing and pressing the shutter release. So I was baffled why my focus was not behaving. I solved the problem by carefully checking any menu option that was at all focus related. I soon found I had Quick Autofocus switched on. Apparently this is to speed up focusing so that the autofocus mechanics have less work to do at the moment when the shutter button is half pressed. However, it makes the camera continually adjust focus without any buttons being pressed and therefore that overrides my back button focus settings. Another disadvantage is that the continuous focusing is an additional drain on the battery. Moral of the story: carefully review your menu settings connected with focusing if you're getting unsharp images.
If you save as a PSD file without flattening, I think it results in a larger file size. If you are exporting as a JPG file, the image is automatically flattened.
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So helpful. I bracket photos frequently, but have never refocused. Remembering to refocus and capture multiple images will be new for me. I use Affinity Photo - not photoshop - but I am sure the same tools are available. Something new to explore. Thank you for all you do.
Glad it helped!
This was really helpful. Thank you!
So glad it helped!!!
I'm an experienced photographer with over 50 years practice. Lately, I noticed some of my landscapes were not sharp. I use back button focus and habitually press the assigned button just before reframing and pressing the shutter release. So I was baffled why my focus was not behaving. I solved the problem by carefully checking any menu option that was at all focus related. I soon found I had Quick Autofocus switched on. Apparently this is to speed up focusing so that the autofocus mechanics have less work to do at the moment when the shutter button is half pressed. However, it makes the camera continually adjust focus without any buttons being pressed and therefore that overrides my back button focus settings. Another disadvantage is that the continuous focusing is an additional drain on the battery.
Moral of the story: carefully review your menu settings connected with focusing if you're getting unsharp images.
Yeah great points. I’ve had things like that happen to me too
Is it necessary or a good idea to flatten the images be for you save them?
I don’t. I’ve always thought it was unnecessary
If you save as a PSD file without flattening, I think it results in a larger file size. If you are exporting as a JPG file, the image is automatically flattened.