Help with focus stacking!

[Astronut]

Hi all, my first post. I'm very much a beginner with fairly simple kit. I can't afford much! I can't seem to get my stacked pictures to align fully. There are parts which are double. I use a cheap focus rail with as small increments as possible, or I just change the focus using the lens. Either way I still get the same alignment errors. You can see duplicated hairs in this photo.

I use a sturdy tripod. My kit is Canon EOS 60D, Sigma 105mm lens and Raynox 250 (in this photo). It's driving me mad and I can't seem to get it right. Any ideas?

 

[Helix_2648]

Hey A Astronut! I take a lot of pictures with the Canon EOS 90D by using the internal focus bracketing function. So no MacroRail or stuff like that.
I can only agree to my previous speakers regarding halos or ghost effects. Seems like the rail is too heavy for your gimal and sags a bit during your stack.

The spider looks great! So there's no reason for critism! Maybe the centre looks a bit too bright, but that's all.

Since I'm using mostly Helicon Docjs I cannot say anything about Affinty nor Zerene, but Photoshop works fine as long as you've a simple stack without huge overlapping items, but fails by rendering complex stacks. Jack posts already my mushroom tutorial where you can check how I render a stack. Hopefully this will help you.

 

[Ron Westbroek]

A Astronut

Maybe you can ask in the Extreme Macro group on Facebook if you're on there.

 

[Astronut]

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Many thanks

 

[Jack]

Many thanks

You are more than welcome. Hope you found an answer on your question.