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Close-up and Macro Photography
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Close-up and Macro Photography

by Robert Thompson
September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
320 pages
10h 41m
English
Routledge
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FIFTEEN Extended Depth of Field

 

 

COMBINING several images together to make a composite photograph is not a new concept, it’s been used in the photographic world for a long time. Thanks to recent advances in software development it can be applied to close-up and macro photography to extend the depth of field in a photograph.

‘Extended Depth of Field’, or ‘Focus Stacking’ has been used in a rudimentary form by museums and in the world of microscopy for quite a long time. In mainstream photography, it really took off with the introduction of software developed by Combine ZM and Helicon Focus in the early 2000s. Since then, Adobe Photoshop and other programs like Zerene Stacker have also become popular alternatives. The basic idea of extended ...

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ISBN: 9781317218043