For this scene, I found I only needed
five or six photos to get the astronaut, the globe, and the foot of a speaker way in the back of the
scene. Then do this:
1. Start Helicon Focus.
2. Click File | Add New Items. Choose your set of images.
3. On the right side of the screen, click Run. After a few moments, you??™ll see a composite
image.
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4. On the program??™s Parameters tab, you can tweak the settings to try to get a better final
result. Vary the position of the Radius and Smoothing sliders to get a sharper or more
natural looking image. I have found that for macro photos, I need to lower both radius and
smoothing. For more ordinary photos of the world at large, the defaults are pretty good.
Like HDR, this technique has limitations. You can??™t use it to shoot scenes with moving
objects, and you really should use a tripod, because each frame needs to line up precisely
with every other frame. And for best results, use a remote control or the camera??™s self-timer,
since pressing the shutter release (especially for macro shots like my example) will reduce the
sharpness and detail of the final image. But if you can put up with all those limitations, you??™ll be
treated to an entirely new kind of photo??”one in which the focus is always infinite.
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