Continuing to play with my food, and practice on stacking.
This was a tough photo set up. No matter what I did in Helicon focus, or in PS stacking, I wound up with halos and blurred areas on these seeds. What I wound up doing was choosing a stack that had the first seed all the way in focus, and then another with the second seed all in focus, used Helicon Focus on them separately and saved. I transferred each one to PS and edited out one of the seeds and cleaned up the ghosts and blurred areas around the seed, all using the clone tool. Then I put the final two images into Helicon Focus, and tried all three methods. A & B method wound up with large black spots on the seeds from the editing. Method C combined the images perfectly with no black areas on them.
One final trip to PS to clean up dust spots etc. and crop a little. There was originally a third seed in the background, but the angle of it was highly distracting, so I removed it.
I like the final result.
Nikon D7100, 105mm Nikkor with Raynox 250, ISO 200, F4.5, 1/125 sec., two softbox lights, tripod and remote shutter. Combined image totals are 17.
This was a tough photo set up. No matter what I did in Helicon focus, or in PS stacking, I wound up with halos and blurred areas on these seeds. What I wound up doing was choosing a stack that had the first seed all the way in focus, and then another with the second seed all in focus, used Helicon Focus on them separately and saved. I transferred each one to PS and edited out one of the seeds and cleaned up the ghosts and blurred areas around the seed, all using the clone tool. Then I put the final two images into Helicon Focus, and tried all three methods. A & B method wound up with large black spots on the seeds from the editing. Method C combined the images perfectly with no black areas on them.
One final trip to PS to clean up dust spots etc. and crop a little. There was originally a third seed in the background, but the angle of it was highly distracting, so I removed it.
I like the final result.
Nikon D7100, 105mm Nikkor with Raynox 250, ISO 200, F4.5, 1/125 sec., two softbox lights, tripod and remote shutter. Combined image totals are 17.