Tried my hand at a little focus stacking. This was originally three separate photos, each captured using a tripod, moving the focus point from front to back to capture each image. The result yields a photo that is in focus from front to back, something I wasn't quite able to pull off with the available light without cranking the ISO up to crazy levels that would have resulted in a bunch of noise.
For those that I have thoroughly confused with those words and all of that technical gobbledygook, I mushed three shots together to make an overall better shot.
Beautiful view of Laguna Beach Ron! Love the clarity and would like to learn how to focus stack. I was just there on Sunday, going through some art galleries. Sad the Laguna Hotel is closed now.
@redy4et Thanks Elizabeth. Stacking is pretty easy in Photoshop. Probably the hardest part is choosing which photos make the best for stacking. If you bracket like I did it makes things even more complicated. As for the Laguna Hotel, yeah, it's been closed for over a year now. I guess there are some litigation issues that need to be ironed out. Sad that such an iconic spot goes unused.
Great image Ron. I am interested in your focus stacking method for getting the whole shot in focus. I have just been on a course learning about finding the hypafocal point when doing a landscape making everything behind the point in focus and everything out to infinity in focus. As a rule of thumb I have focused one third into the image ( a guess of course). Simon my tutor was showing me an App where you could find the point accurately. I have not heard of doing it your way - I might try it.
May 3rd, 2019
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