Just got the Affinity photo application, and found your tutorials very helpful. Not just for the software, but also for general tips for greater photos. Thanks!
Affinity seems to do a great job of focusing on stacking and much more simple than Photoshop. It may misalign photos sometime, but I have never had that problem with around 100 projects. I keep looking for a problem, but so far it has been great.
Thanks for the info. How many brackets do you take for focus bracketing and do you use any software to take the shots? Or do you manually just change the focus?
Thanks for going through this - I am new to Affinity and got a lot out of your clip. The noise reduction was outstanding and I guess for smaller sensors (which can struggle in low light scenes) is a great facility to have. (Apart from my OM-1, I also have an RX10IV.)
Yes I also use RX100vi those small sensors need all the help it can get. You can also try some AI noise reduction tools which is getting better and better.
Hi Jeff, I have never heard of both focus stacking and exposure blending. I don't think that will work as you would need to both change focus and change exposures. Much to complicated! I also don't think the software supports such. Noise reduction might be possible by default since focus stacking merges multiple images and that by itself should reduce noise.
@jeffyablone6673 Hi Jeff, I think it will work. I am pretty sure I have done it already. But it is a kind of tedious process and you need perfectly static objects and well fixated camera. First you shoot a series of all focal planes which is a little overexposed. Then another series which is correcty exposed and has all focal planes. And then a series which is a little underexposed. In Affinity you first merge the overexposed pictures as a focal stack, then as a new (!) merge process the normal exposed pics and last the underexposed pics. This way you get three separate files which are sharp from first to last focal plane but are differently exposed. Then take the three results and merge them as a dynamic range stack as shown in the video. Voilá! @takebetterphotos8132 Don't you think this will work?
Ah, I forgot. The same will work for noise reduction. But this time you need to shoot the suggested number of 10 to 20 pics in the first focal plane as one series, then another series in the next focal plane, and so forth until you have all focal planes covered. In Affinity stack separately the first series, then the second, etc. As results you now have a noise reduced picture of each focal plane. Finally stack these together as a focal stack. And ready! (... after probably hours of work🙂)
Hi there just saw your very helpful response! Still getting used to RU-vid studio comment section. Yes as you say it is possible but very tedious unless you have automated focus stacking. That should have been my answer! Anyway thanks for your input! 🙂
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Affinity seems to do a great job of focusing on stacking and much more simple than Photoshop. It may misalign photos sometime, but I have never had that problem with around 100 projects. I keep looking for a problem, but so far it has been great.
