![]() However, astro trackers aren’t always ideal. If you need to capture everything in one image for whatever reason, take a look at our tutorials on Milky Way photography, getting enough depth of field at night, and the optimal settings for star photography.) (All this assumes that you don’t have a problem with blending photos. Stacking photos essentially eliminates that problem.īut what do I mean by stacking photos? There are two routes, one of which is simpler and more flexible than the other. Otherwise, you could shoot every Milky Way image at f/5.6 and 10 seconds (maximizing star sharpness) while simply using an insane ISO like 51,200 to get your image to be bright enough. What can you do about it? One answer is often overlooked, but surprisingly helpful and easy to put into practice: stacking images.įundamentally, the big problem with shooting the stars is that you lose a lot of image quality at ultra-high ISO values. If you’ve ever tried to do astrophotography, you’ve probably run into all sorts of issues: blurred stars, high ISO noise, and shallow depth of field. The night sky is one of the most alluring subjects for landscape photographers. HF seems to also have some editing capabilities within the focus stacking process.like if something moves, you can choose which in focus images to use in case it chooses poorly.NIKON Z 6 + NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S 17.5mm, ISO 6400, 10 seconds, f/4.0, 14-image stack I also need to shoot a few more varied focus stack images to try while on the trial period. I did do that route and have several resultant images.and I didn't even yet do ALL the permutations as that HF and Zerene both have multiple algorithms you can choose for processing.Īnyway, still working the experiments. Those small adjustments seemed to be overly amplified somewhat.so, thinking if I can get back close to a RAWimage after stacking with the Helicon app, I might like to go that way.Ĭ1 has a Helicon plug-in that can make the roundtrip seamless.but it only seems to run it as TIFF out and TIFF in.so, not sure how that will work. I tried originally doing some slight sharpness, color ,etc.in Capture One first and exporting out as TIFF files.and running through both focus stacking programs. So far, it appears I like Helicon's ability to work with RAW images in and export DNG (essentially "RAW") images out.I'm working right now to see how much I can push/pull the resultant DNG image in both capture one and On1 RAW. However, it appears there is a LOT of info I need to delve into with Zerene to maybe learn to 'tune' some parameters. Well so far.the Helicon Focus seems to be a bit ahead of the Zerene app for me. ![]()
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