POTW_December 11th, 2015

[Sanford]

<p>Red Shoes </p><div></div>

[famico]

<p>Back to playing with the 60mm lens. Saw this string of lights my wife put up in the back yard, and decided to try my hand at photographing them.</p><div></div>

[famico]

<p>One more...</p><div></div>

[famico]

<p>Oops, forgot to include this. For Anthea, or anyone else interested, here's another link to suggested Oly settings:<br>

http://www.ayton.id.au/wiki/doku.php?id=photo:olympusem1_settings</p>

 

[anthea50]

<p>Thanks Hosteen, will check it out. I have been testing the new focus stacking tool from the v.4 firmware update on the E-M1. Has anyone else here tried it?</p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>Second one - shot at f.2.8!</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Anthea, that's impressive; shame the EM5 doesn't do it. From me, a straight picture when the light behaved impeccably.</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>It is a nice stack job Anthea. Simple Thistle leaf from me.</p><div></div>

[Sanford]

<p>That is impressive Anthea. Do you have a before photo?</p>

[famico]

<p>Nice, Anthea. Haven't updated the firmware yet, so can't try focus stacking. Like Sanford I'm curious to see if you tried a shot w/o stacking, and if so, what do you think of the difference?</p>

[anthea50]

<p>Towards the end of my testing I realised that a comparison shot might be valuable, so here are two, one stacked and one just a single shot. Because I used a tripod all I had to do was do one version using the focus stacking then turn it off in the menu and shoot again. This means that the focus point is in exactly the same spot so you can see the big difference in dof. First, the stacked shot...</p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>Now the single image..</p><div></div>

[famico]

<p>Wow, thanks for the comparison, Anthea! Looks like I need to update the firmware to take advantage of this feature. Sure does seem it works well.</p>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Anthea - another dumb question about the focus stacking - can you save as RAW files or only as JPEG or TIFF? It's certainly impressive, and I like the way the stacked picture of the comparison pair still has some oof areas to set off the metalwork.</p>

[anthea50]

<p>John, your question is not dumb at all. The camera records the images for stacking as if you were in raw+jpeg mode. So basically you end up with 8 raw shots and 8 jpeg's and the stacked jpeg. This means you can do your own stacking in PS or whatever, using the raw shots if you want. It also means if you get a little drunk on the power of seeing magically produced stacked images appearing on your LCD and try different f.stops and experiment like a mad person you end with something like 800 shots on your memory card and it takes days to try and figure out which is what and such lol!</p>