Hello, I have shot a spider sitting on a mushroom, using the camera built-in focus shift and combined the photos with HeliconSoft. Now the areas to the sides of the spider's legs are blurred. The root cause for this is pretty obvious: In those photos which are focused on the mushroom the spider's legs are out of focus and consequently wider than in the photos where the legs are in focus. When I try to correct this in the HeliconSoft post-processing section, the out-of-focus legs of the spider will become visible.
Does anyone have a clever idea how to fix this issue? The only way I can think of is
- copy 1: use a convenient tool (Lightroom, Photoshop) to "repair" the incriminating areas in
- copy 2:separate the spider
- overlay the two copies again
It would be a nightmare to keep the fines hairs of the spider in step 3.
Thanks for any contribution, and best regards,
Markus
