Focus Stacking Ep 107: Take & Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey: Adorama Photography TV
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Adorama Photography TV Presents Take & Make Great Photos with Gavin Hoey. Getting a good depth of field in your photos is ideal for landscape photography but if you really want to add drama then you need to go for an extreme depth of field using a technique known as focus stacking.
Join Gavin Hoey as he shows you how you can take multiple photos at different focus points and then follow Gavin in to Photoshop CS6 where he'll show you a quick technique for combining the images together and stacking their focus.
Adorama Photography TV features talented hosts including: Mark Wallace, Gavin Hoey, Joe McNally, Joe DiMaggio, Tamara Lackey, Bryan Peterson, and Rich Harrington.
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Adorama are lucky to have Gavin, he's a fantastic photographer and teacher.
This is the best program of ADORAMA....
I don’t know whether you’ll get this message as this video has been on here a long time I truly think you are an amazing photographer every think I watch of you your flash photography your macro photography I know your soul stack and you inspire me to want to be better thank you
Perfect timing!
My wife just took a macro shot of a spider in our garden and asked me why it's not completely in focus. I told her about focus stacking, but this video will show her how to achieve it in Photoshop. Another great video by Gavin! keep up the great work.
Given the circumstances, the method you described and Gavin's is the best method since f8 - f13 is the sharpest f-stops for most lenses and is what i would use. However, stacking might not be convenient or possible in some circumstances so finding the hyperfocal distance is the next best option and a little post sharpening will most likely produce an acceptable image.
Great points on the explanation of "acceptable focus" and how it applies to hyperfocal distance.
Gavin is an excellent teacher.
Yup...another great video from Gavin.
Superb tutorial as always Gavin.
He is one of the best changes in adoramatv!
Very nice, another thing to try for me. Image looks great!
nice demonstration. I've always wanted to try focus-stacking but seeing it in action has motivated me. Thanks
What a great tutorial; you have a fantastic personality, which really engages the viewer.
Gavin is the best. Love his tutorials. I actually shot one of these series the other day but wasn't sure about how to process them in Photoshop, or if you had to have special software for it. Now I know. Great video.
Yeah yeah yeah! Another Gavin's Tutorial! Every time I check Adorama channel I hope for a new one ;)
Really easy to understand (even for someone who didn't speak English very well), good technics and some humour... My favourite!
of course you can, you just take 1 bracket set at close, another full set at medium and another set at infinity.
Combine each set of normal / over / under exposures this way as Gavin explained, then process your 3 resulting files as HDR.
Thanks Gavin. You teach me great things to do with photoshop I didn't know I could do! You're a way more interesting & a better educator than the bland instruction manual which comes with photoshop! Thanks for helping me achieve better images with your tutorials.
Nicely done. I only knew how to do this manually. The automatic blend was extremely effective.
After 6 years this is still very helpful thanks.
GREAT as usual....
Wonderful tutorial. Was looking for this one.
Today was the first time i shot macro with focus stack.
Thank you!
Always enjoy your videos Gavin. Please keep them coming!
you are the best Gavin ...
Hi Gavin I don't know how to thank you. Very nice expressions &
explanations. In simple its just a beautiful session. Keep it on!!!
I dont know if I'm late..I never tried it but I would take the bracketing photos of different points of focus, like 3 bracketing photos at near, 3 at mid range and 3 for infinity. Then create 3 hdr pictures with each bracketing group, all with the very exact same post-processing. And finnally stack the 3 hdr photos, creating the final image, you then have a focus stacked hdr photo.
Well this is my theory that I came up right now, hope it works. Cheers from Portugal
Very, very great tuto Gavin ! Thanks to you, I can make beautiful pictures.
Merci encore.
Super simple and well explained....many thanks Sir.
Good job of explaining focus stacking. You would have a better chance of getting a sharp image with this set up if you used the camera's internal timer to take the photos. It would eliminate the camera movement from pushing then shutter release. Of course the mirror lock up function will help too.
if you notice carefully after he uses the autoblend tool, there are now three layers with little black/white thumbnails next to them. Those are called masks in photoshop (google them). You can use these masks to paint the details back in that you'd like, and also omit them. However, with this technique you might find that the wave you want might not be the one in focus. the computer can only be so smart.
Impressive work indeed
Wow what an awesome tutorial you explained everything perfectly, excellent job Gavin!
It's funny to see how the years went by ... 2016 we needn't to do this improvised and manually anymore. With a smartphone app like "gsimplerelease" we control focal points and shutter without touching the camera. dozens of photos are taken in a few seconds automized and could be combined with stacking software like "helicon" perfectly. Less stress, better results ... what a progress.
I started with Nikon Z auto. It worked. Then I tried Leica M10 , focused on close object, then moved manual focus in small increments to distant objects. Better
Hey Gavin, great to see here as well! I love the way you motivate people to try new techniques. Keep up the good work
As always excellent. Very simply explained.
Gavin you are a gem ! Thankyou for all you do for us at no cost !. I have bought some of your own DVD's in the past which are also just as good and I can watch anytime I want :) Does this work in Elements though?
Thank you so much for this video. It has helped me a lot. I was struggling with hyperfocal distance as I do not have the focus ring on my kit lens.
Powerful tutorial - Thank you will try and give it a go.
I always asked how they do that. Now I know. Thank you Gavin, that was my missing link for perfectly sharp images thru the entire depth.
Great video sir! Learned quite a cool trick today.
How did the ocean and waves stay sharp through blending? I would think that stacking the images would make a mess of the ocean but it didn't. Thank you for the tutorial.
Yes it can. CS5 has this exact feature located and used the same as in the video.
I found a new idol... Amazing work can't wait to try this out
Another excellent tutorial, thank you very much.
Very useful tutorial! Thank you Gavin.
excellent tutorial Gavin !!! Great teacher !!!
Great video!! I never knew this was possible. Now to check whether it's also possible with CS5
He could. Based on his requirements he could focus 4ft into the scene and get sharpness from 50 cm to infinity based on my depth of field calculator on my phone. The distance scales on many lens are woefully inaccurate though. He could find an object 4 ft from the sensor plane and lock focus there and recompose. He could also use the 10x magnification in live view to check sharpness in the scene (flip screen of 60D shines here). Stacking is just another tool in the box.
Man you do an amazing job im so greatfull for all your cool tips! keep going!!
Amazing and such a beautiful photo!
Love the videos by Gavin!
Gavin is great.
Grande se~or Gavin !!!! Many Tnks !!!
Thanks so much very helpful
Awesome thanks!
Nicely explained, as always. Thanks
Gavin, a quick question for this video. You had three images in which the only thing that changed was the waves. Is there a way to still achieve this focus but to have the biggest waves in the final image? How does the stacking and blend layers handle which waves are included in the final image and is there a way to choose that yourself?
Again I learned a lot from you. Thank you so much!
Thank you.
Oh great tips I'm gonna get started right away thanks
Awesome!
I live near Cromer and I have visited that pier.
Learning something new everyday! :)
thank you very.. i just learned something new in photoshop. keep it up.
I see that moving waves were in the focus stacking that was done here. Is movement of objects in the composition ever a problem in seamlessly stacking the various photos together?
great explanation, great teacher.
Great tutorial
Gavin can you comment on the workflow (order) of both focus stacking and exposure bracketing in the field and then in post processing. Meaning, do I do a set of focus stacked images first, then do exposure bracketing? In post, do I first align the focus stacks and then do the exposure blending? thanks
Nice trick!!!!! thanks
Thanks for the reply Michael, it is appreciated
so for focus bracketing you used "Auto blend layers" and for exposure bracketing you used "auto align layers"?
Another brilliant Video, I'm only just starting out, and probably a silly question but I don't have any lens with the depth of field on the lens like yours can I still do the same with the focus ring by moving in stages if I have set everything else in aperture priority?
Excellent
\\Great video GavinI I hadn't heard about this before, cant wait to try it!
Really interesting
great great video , like
excellent video Gavin! let me guess: you are or have been a teacher! the way you can explain things in a very clear, structured and comprehensive way...no doubt :-)
the best.
thanks gavin hoey best tutorials wic from malta
can you do a tutorial about the math behind working out how many centimeters of focus you get?
if you were to take this picture with a subject so close would it even be possible to use one focus and have it all fairly sharp? If so where would you autofocus?
Great video. Thanks!
Hey Gavin,
great vid as usual! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I have a question about focusing at infinity: I have the same lens you have and the infinity mark is not at the far end of the ring movement. Is infinity properly focused at the mark or at the very far end of the focusing ring?
Keep posting nice stuff and congrats for being part of the adorama TV family! :-)
thanks!
trying to figure out how you straightened out the horizon.. was in in camera raw? where you selected that "auto" stuff, and it made the horizon horizontal? and did you batch do it for all 3, or individually?
Also almost forgot, did you expose the image for the ground?
Good video
gavin is great!
Very helpful! will defo give this ago! :D
I have photoshop elements 12, am i able to do this effect as i can't find the same options you chose.
hi Gavin. did photoshop solve the issue of the waves too? 3 different shots with moving waves? just wondering.
thats awsome but how would you do this with HDR shot? with bracketed shots and you cant really move your focus
if its possible please explain tnx..
thanks
Great Gavin, But if your cs5 and dont have raw 7.1 is this stil possible??
Picky! but you do have to remember there is 60 sec of ads at the end.
Does Hyper focal distance not work with getting everything in focus?
Thanks Gavin, great tutorial. Can this be done in Cs5?
Hey Gavin...did you use a filter? thanks!
When you zoomed in to read the print in the final image, I could see the spots in the image from the sensor. I know they are more likely to appear at smaller apertures, but what is the best way to get rid of them in Post processing? ( assuming you have recently amended the 'dust delete" data in camera)
Hi. Awesome video!!! If you dont use this way and just take on photo how is it possible that som photogrefer makes it pin sharp from 2m to infinity???? I have the 24-70mm and when i put my f-stop to 22 the background is still blurred .... Why is that? Do i kneed to calibrate my lens and camera? I hope you can help me on this one. Have i nice day Maestro!!!
nice!