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[Guest 1012]

I saw the idea on another site and wanted to reproduce it. Stacked with Helicon Focus, LR+PS adjustments.

 

[Jack]

Interesting experiment @Guest 1012 . However, seems that the photo is over saturated to me, and also, have you cropped?

 

[Guest 1012]

Hi, it's not cropped, just ~2.5x magnification.
I don't think I edited the saturation.

BTW, treat it more as a test for the lens and stacking capabilities of Helicon.

 

[Helix_2648]

Hi @Guest 1012! I work a lot with Helicon Focus and I would recoomend to render the stack with all three methods and save them individually. After that start a second instance and render all three outputs again to combine the advantages of all three methods with the retouching tool. There are some ghosts and halos visible and to be honest, but I don't like to red background.