masking – liewwk Nature

As we know anything >1:1 macro, we have very limit DOF … I had it share before … what we DOF have while we shooting macro e.g. at crop body, F16 at 1:1 .. the dof we have is just ~1mm … so how we have more DOF ?

1. angle is important , if we want the main objects “focus”

e.g.

at certain angle, we have not possible to have both object focus .. e.g. choose one , shoot small to crop , or using stacking method I use (discuss before HERE)

by using the stacking … we can get both beetle focus as below

or discuss http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=922

of if we do not want to do much on post process… choose the best angle to have both object focus e.g.

more beetle collection click HERE

exposures blending1

exposures blending2

Manual masking – exposures blending

Photomatix Blending

While we shoot landscape, to get right exposures for both foreground and background (sky) .. it is just not too simple … as discussed previously , we can either

1. GND filter

2. black card method

3. HDR

4. Exposures blending (where we will discuss here)

e.g. of 2 pictures