Landscapes
Posted: 06.11.2006 05:17
I'm mainly interested in using Helicon Focus with landscape images. I haven't seen many landscape images in this forum so I thought that other users and prospective users would enjoy my experience making this image.
The originals were made with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f4 L lens, with the lens set at f14. There were five images in the stack. Helicon Focus worked on the original RAW CR2 files.
Helicon focus did a very good job of merging the stack. The flowers were moving in the wind and the effective focal length of the lens changed with the focal distance. Helicon Focus did not fully compensate for these issues, however the brushes tool made it easy to remove any artifacts. It took about an hour to do artifact removal on the rather complex image.
The only thing I would do differently next time is to process the RAW images first. The exposure is a little hot, damaging the highlight detail in the light flowers. This could have been easily corrected in Adobe Bridge.
The images were made this summer (2006) in an alpine meadow high above Floe Lake, in Kootenay National Park, Canadian Rockies.
The originals were made with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f4 L lens, with the lens set at f14. There were five images in the stack. Helicon Focus worked on the original RAW CR2 files.
Helicon focus did a very good job of merging the stack. The flowers were moving in the wind and the effective focal length of the lens changed with the focal distance. Helicon Focus did not fully compensate for these issues, however the brushes tool made it easy to remove any artifacts. It took about an hour to do artifact removal on the rather complex image.
The only thing I would do differently next time is to process the RAW images first. The exposure is a little hot, damaging the highlight detail in the light flowers. This could have been easily corrected in Adobe Bridge.
The images were made this summer (2006) in an alpine meadow high above Floe Lake, in Kootenay National Park, Canadian Rockies.