Comments on: Focus Stacking https://www.dennisgoulet.us/focus-stacking-2/ Photography Mon, 18 May 2026 20:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dennis https://www.dennisgoulet.us/focus-stacking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:34:20 +0000 http://www.dennisgoulet.us/?p=352#comment-1155 In reply to Jim Turner.

Jim,

I took the images of the droplets on the window to demonstrate the technique of stacking the images together. Normally, I would have arranged the camera to have the sensor plane parallel with the window, but then all the drops would be in focus. I created the need for focus stacking by tilting the camera so that only a section of each image would be sharp. Perhaps “misaalingment” is the wrong word to use since all the images are actually aligned as they need to be for focus stacking.

]]> By: Jim Turner https://www.dennisgoulet.us/focus-stacking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:17:56 +0000 http://www.dennisgoulet.us/?p=352#comment-1154 Dennis, thank you for this informative post. I’ve recently become interested in panorama’s using stitching and alignment in photoshop and find your post on stacking will have me trying your techniques very soon.
When photographing a flat object, like the window droplets you mentioned you tilted your camera 15 degrees to cause a misalignment. Would you mind explaining further what exactly is a “misalignment” and why you would want to do it? What does it do?

]]> By: Natalya Pluzhnikov https://www.dennisgoulet.us/focus-stacking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:23:15 +0000 http://www.dennisgoulet.us/?p=352#comment-1078 Thank you, Dennis, for a wonderful presentation, clear and precise, of this technique.
I had lots of fun using it for some flower pictures, taken to test the railing recently bought for my camera.

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