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Post-processing a handheld macro focus stack

Post-processing a handheld macro focus stack

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Post-processing a handheld macro focus stack

- If you saw last weeks Practicing Photographer, you saw me and a bunch of dead flowers. Well, not dead flowers, but decrepit flowers, and a Canon 5D Mark II with a 100 mm macro lens on it. I was trying handheld focus stacking, and you saw me throw the camera into burst mode, aim at the flowers, and while bursting, move the camera forward a little bit to get a bunch of overlapping images. With the hope that I would be able to now bring them into my computer and stack them together to create an image with the depth of field. That was last week. So this week, we're gonna do that second part. They're in the computer, and we're gonna see if we can get them stacked together. And I'm gonna take you through that process. It's actually very simple, and here's where we're going to see if this whole handheld thing really works out. You can see that I've got a bunch of stacks here. Now I'm doing this in Lightroom, but you could just as easily do this in Bridge. You could also do it in another…

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