How to do Focus Stacking in 2022 | complete guide with miops slider+

Umm... If you asked me if you could capture virtually every consideration of macro focal stacking in one video, I would say probably not. You clearly proved me wrong. Amazing video! So thorough!!!

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Good morning. My name is Hermano. From Brazil. Please, could you answer me if I can stack photos by changing the focus area, using the manual focus by the lens, instead of using the Nisi focusing rail?? Would the result be the same, or do I lose a bit of quality in the final photo?

Great job! Is it possible to have the Photoshop tutorial for the action or at least have the action available? It will help a lot a beginner like me 😅😅

Thanks!

Thank you for this

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I was searching a video to help me edit my macro photos... and loved your video. As a biologist I trully apreciate your message about the importance of insects and their decline.

Mega tutorial Wolf - I can't applaud your effort enough. Looking forward to more macro related content please

Hi, I use quickmask (Q) and brush the areas I want to fill(FG color should be in black) and again press Q and with the selection I use Content-aware and It works great

This was the third , and by far best, video I watched on the Miops unit and ALL made the same assumption so I assume I am just too old and dense to use this product. You refer to the app but you do not say whether the app is for Apple, Android or both. Neither do you tell whether the app is included in the $399 price or have to searched out from the usual app providers. I enjoyed watching the video and it convinced me that I would like to own the unit for what I do but I am not going to buy an IPhone just to run this app and found no mention on compatibility (or lack) with my Android phone (Galaxy S21). In the last 6 months I have done a lot of manual stacks using both camera and manual rail advances so now I am interested in the next step which sounds like the Miops. If you are considering another video on this unit, I wonder how it would fare used in the field for closeup and near macro shots of living insects (I do not shoot dead bees when there are living ones available). Obviously this would be many fewer shots more widely spaced and would suffer from subject movement (wind is deadly in stacking) with delay set to a minimum. Perhaps the motion caused by the advance would be a problem but it might still be better for those of us now trying to shoot while leaning toward the subject with camera set to 15-30 frames per second.

Thanks a lot for this video !! Very very instructive !! Thanks for taking the time to explain so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤

What happened to the Photoshop retouching action you mentioned.

By the way there is a better way to fix errors in PS stacking. Make a copy of all the layers before merging. When it's done, merge the layers into one layer, keeping the originals below it. You can then either erase the part and turn off the layers below one by one until you find the one where it's sharp, then copy/paste this section manually.

Correction: Exposure time is not just shutter speed. When exposing to light, you can have a long shutter speed but use a flash on a low setting to freeze the action, while keeping a little ambient light in the bg. Your flash power down time is then the controlling point of your exposure to light time, which is much faster than your shutter speed.

In camera focus stacking isn't that limited on R7. You can set number of shots and width between them. The only limit is the fact it is electronic shutter, which doesn't allow you to use a flash. This is why I don't use it anymore and bought a manual focus lens.... Laowa 100mm. Thanks for showing demo on focus stacking and F stops, this is why my F4 stacks look wrong I guess, too much haloing. I learned a lot here, cheers!

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🎯 I watched it two times to understand one time. One time more when I use it. . You did the best job... Thank you so much.... Das war richtig gut und verstaendlich . Super Wolf....

Thank you for recommending this video after your Macro video on extension tubes and clip on lenses, this was a real eye opener. I have "stiched" landscape photos together before, but never anything like this. It is quite daunting, but I now have this video to help guide me through it. Topaz AI has now been added to my never ending "I need this list". :D

absolutely amazing and helpful video! thanks a million!

Awesome. There is way to get these magnifications without a slider though 😄

If you’re shooting live insects, like I do, theres no way a slider would work. But definitely good for stationary subjects.

Great explanation!
I'm hoping that the day is not far off when AI becomes a part of focus stacking and stack editing. I can imagine a time when AI will be able to recognize types of objects and their characteristics (flower or insect or whatever), find bokeh halos and eliminate them, and perhaps even generate an internal 3D model of the object being stacked to recognize when one "tentacle" (or hair or fiber) is in the foreground and another in the background, and where they cleanly cross. Imagine the results!

Fantastic video. Thank you for the effort doing such an amazing educational video about stacking.

Thanks 🙏 One of the best micro photo & slider videos I’ve seen. 🎉

Omg… Is this really all for freee!!! 😂
What’s the catch 😉

Good tips, even for experienced photographers. Many thanks.

It is worth pointing out if you have APSC or MFT there can be advantages depending on the type of lenses you are using.

Photoshop seems to divide images almost randomly. It is ridiculous that Adobe have not produced a stacking module that works well.

For very large stacks (hundreds) with 80 MP RAW files (Olympus in Hi Res Mode), Helicon on method C is the obvious choice for insect photography. If you have a really fast graphics card, it makes sense to use Helicon.

I then AI sharpen and sometimes reduce to 50 MP (to give 200 MP per full frame image).

"DSLRs don't have focus bracketing"??
Excuse me, but the Canon Eos 90D does.

What an amazingly clear, comprehensive and useful video! This has it be the best how-to photography video I’ve ever seen. Many thanks for all the effort you obviously put into making it(!) New subscriber…

one of the best explanation, thank you for spending the time and to be fair i subscrived and liked the video, Thank you again.

Great video. Thank you for your words about saving bees!:)

Hi Wolf, great video with a lot of details, thanks for that! Instead of an (expensive) slider, what about putting your camera on a tripod and just using the focus ring to shift the DOF forward step by step. Advantage: The picture stays always exactly the same. I'm curious about your answer!

thank you so much! I love how detailed your explanantions are. You are an excellent educator! I'm not a macro photographer (yet) and I've started studying before I take the jump. You have inspired me to keep on learning.

Brilliant instruction.

Very useful video. But I didn't see a link to the focus stacking cheat sheet.

Danke! Outstanding tutorial which inspirates me to buy the slider as well as Zerene Stacker. Thanx a lot!

I love you like a father. This helps so much

Thank you for this wonderful masterclass!

could you make a tutorial microfying latest reel on Instagram how they shoot how they edit

Good as far as it goes but I don't use Adobe and resist paying so much ($289?) for Zerene so I'll continue to rely on the routine in the free Canon DPP4. No, it is not fast. There is also one that works reasonably in Affinity Photo but I only go there if DPP4 has failed. I assume there are others I have never heard to exist. I do not understand all the controls of DPP4's stacking and wonder how they might help on some images. I do run stacks through Topaz Sharpen AI but find it often adds some artifacts making a string of things that did not seem to need retouching before. I first stacked using another (now antique) freeware program called CombineZ which seemed better than the then new Helicon Focus for my purposes. I don't like to clone out mites but dust and sensor dirt have to go. Bees should be covered with pollen. Ones that are not look like dead insects purchased online. Live insects are obviously much harder to stack with the precision you show. The entire matter is filled with compromises.

cool to see you back! hopefully you will continue making videos. They are really something special

coming back after a while... dope

outstanding video, thanks !!!

This is a very informative and interesting video. It looks like a whole lecture on staking. It's a pity there weren't such full videos at the time when I started to master it.

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Thanks you so much! This is such an amazing interesting tutorial! Looking forward for the next videos!

superb .. too much information :)

interesting. My brain could however not process all the macro talk. Will need to rewatch the video again at a later time.