I've photograph a few low-contrast images this week. Today I had a new idea. I want to know if anyone else has tried this, and if so if they've got any advice.
Today, I photographed an orchid -- almost all very light tones. My first HeliconFocus composite had a lot of out-of-focus areas. I suspect that HeliconFocus judges "in-focus" by local contrast. Can anyone confirm or disagree with that?
I raised the contrast in a second conversion from raw to tif files, used Helicon to make a composite image, and then lowered the contrast back to where I wanted it in Photoshop. This was very successful. I needed to do very little retouching in HeliconFocus to make a well-focused final image. Hooray! Anybody have comments or ideas about this method?
Increasing contrast for better focus stacking
Re: Increasing contrast for better focus stacking
Pretty interesting… will keep in mind