I was just not thinking about the shallow depth of field, focus issues, and other problems related to creating a digital file of the tiny car that would be printed to over 48 inches wide. Once I had the first car under the camera I quickly realized that I was in for a challenge. I remember when the client first called me and asked me to photograph several Hot Wheels cars for his convention I thought, “how hard could that be!” - six cars, same size, same angle, same setup…a couple of hours…no problem! They look so “cute” when holding them in your hand, but can look very terrifying when viewing the 150 MB file at 100% size on the monitor. Whenever the next job came in I always had mixed feelings…excited about the challenge, but fearing the technical obstacles in creating an image at this level of enlargement. The cars average 2-1/2” long and would be enlarged to 48” wide banners…a magnification of 16 times life size. It is absolutely amazing to do focus stacking! If you would like to try Helicon Focus click here.For the last couple of years, I have photographed a number of special edition Hot Wheels® cars for semiannual collector shows. I will also teach you how to easily fix mis-alignments post stacking! Large file batch stacking, “Batch Stacking” in Lightroom. ![]() In my focus stack, what I like to do is actually take the rendered stacks and merge those together and I will show you exactly how to do this. A lot of the times I feel that a particular method will work well with the soft areas of my image and another method will work better with the detailed areas. I will also share with you how to use several rendered stacked images as source files. Use your shutter release or timer so you don’t move your actual camera when you’re focusing macro. I will be rendering with method A, B and C and I’ll explain all of that in the video but just to let you know – you should really be on manual mode. Now, back to the INTERMEDIATE video for Helicon Focus, you will see that I will be rendering each image. I also have a blog post on focus stacking □ Check out that post too if you’re a newbie. If you can’t understand this yet and you haven’t seen my last video on the BEGINNER basics of Helicon Focus, then please check down below because you should watch that first before going beyond this INTERMEDIATE video. You take that photograph first and then you continually take one right after another, and making sure that you have at least one part of a section that is in focus on both images that you’re continually shooting. ![]() ![]() I’ll be in Lightroom but just a real quick refresher on stacking for Helicon Focus – the best way to actually photograph is when your subject is the closest to your lens. In the video above, you’ll see the images in red, those are the ones I’m going to stack. So let’s get to it! Make sure to open the video below! □ This video is for you that already understand the program but we’re gonna take you to the next level. Today we’ll dive into the INTERMEDIATE tools for Helicon Focus, so you can make, beautiful, world-class photography that you’re proud to share with the world.
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