Affinity Focus Stacking

[gregmeister_admin]

I have been playing around with Affinity Focus Merge and I find the process very straight forward and powerful
This image is a composite of 50 images from my Nikon. I applied the NIK sharpening pro 3 for output to the image. Very lightly.

Greg

[gregmeister_admin]

And Another:

[Tildy]

Greg, did you mean 5 images?

[gregmeister_admin]

nope 50

[julie]

They look amazing. Was it a macro lens?

[gregmeister_admin]

Yes. Nikon 105 Macro.
Used for Portraiture and Macro.
Greg

[julie]

Portrature and macro. I will be interested to hear about this. Is it a special lens or could you just use a normal 105?

[sjordan93436]

Great images.

I had a focus stack of a landscape. Unfortunately, it was a one time affair and I did not do enough images and the out of focus image of the subject was larger than the in focus. I had a large blurry "halo" that I had to hand crop out. Heavy sigh. That image will not be available to re shoot.

[Ganna]

Portrature and macro. I will be interested to hear about this. Is it a special lens or could you just use a normal 105?

Julie, I think Greg is loafing somewhere Macro lens is a specialized lens with a very short focusing distance, but you can use it for "normal" distance images as well as they can focus to infinity as well.

[julie]

So...a macro lens has the capacity to focus at a very close distance -closer than a normal lens? But can also focus to infinity? Is this right?