A Vase of Roses

Last weekend, I wanted to try out a few new functions within the Fuji cameras that I had heard of for some time, but never tried - Focus Stacking.

You need several items to pull off focus stacking, the camera, the lens, a tripod then the software to process the images.

I used my Fuji X-T2 and set the shutter to Electronic. This avoids any unnecessary camera shake. It’s pretty east to configure within the Drive settings of the camera but it took a little trial and error to get the shot (or shots) I was looking for. Once I had my series of shots, I imported them into Photoshop for processing. I still have more to learn but thought this first try was a successful one.

The lens I used is the brilliant XF80 Macro Lens.

This was a series of 20 shots combined in Photoshop

This was a series of 20 shots combined in Photoshop

This was a series of 100 shots although I only used 70 since I didn’t want to back wall in focus

This was a series of 100 shots although I only used 70 since I didn’t want to back wall in focus

This was a series of 20 shots

This was a series of 20 shots

This was a series of 20 shots

This was a series of 20 shots