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[quote user="RRCanuck"]This week's contribution is not so much about modeling (admittedly mediocre) but photography.  Recent articles in MR and past posts here about methods to enhance depth of field (like Helicon software) were the inspiration for this week's pics.  I don't have Helicon, but figured I could achieve similar results taking 3 exposures of each scene that were identical except for the focus point, then using photoshop to "stitch" them together.  The objective was to achieve zero-to-infinity focus. I have 2 things to say about this project:  1. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, and 2. Looking at photos is a great way to see all the mistakes you've made.  You just don't realize how much you need to improve things until you look at your photos.  A bit sobering, frankly.[/quote]If you have a camera that can go up to a high aperture, you can use that instead of / in conjunction with HeliconFocus to get a high depth of field. I shoot at F/36 for my photos and get plenty of depth of field, with the camera mounted on a tripod for the long exposure shots.That being said, the new camera I'm considering (the Canon SX1) only goes up to F/5.6, so I will presumably get to learn how to use HeliconFocus! I believe it is free (or there's a similar version that's free), and I would imagine that it's a whole lot easier than Photoshop! I've tried to manually create HDR images using Photoshop 6.0, and it didn't work so great and was pretty tricky...I would imagine the effort is similar with depth of field.
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