CreativeSeries | Nikon | Focus Shift Stacking

hello i'm brett from nikon australia and today i'm in macarthur camera house and i would like to talk about the nikon mirrorless z6 and z7 and in particular i'd like to talk about a special feature called focus shift shooting it's in the menu system and what focus shift shooting actually is is focus stacking if you're aware of that and focus setting can be used in your photography to get the ultimate focus on your subject whether it be macro or landscape okay so to demonstrate how we're going to do focus shift shooting today we're going to be using the z7 which is our high resolution 45.7 megapixel camera to take a photo a product photo of the nikon d780 which is our latest and greatest uh digital slr so let me show you now how we set up focus shift shooting on the z7 camera in the menu system okay to set up focus shift shooting we hit the menu button and in the camera menu which is little camera icon we scroll on down to focus shift shooting it's about three pages into the menu and there it is at the bottom focus shift shooting so hit okay and turn it on okay in focus shift shooting we can select the number of shots we want to take of our subject that can be anywhere from two shots right up to 300 shots but today of the nikon d780 that we're going to take a photo of i'm going to select 10 images so hit ok and we will select 10 images next we select the focus step width now the width is the stepping between each image taking the focus point of each image so we can go from narrow to wide so today for my image that i'm taking here we're going to select a width of five okay we can also select an interval between each shot which i'm going to leave at zero at the moment we're also going to lock on the first exposure that we take the first frame if we'd like to we can use focus peaking to stack the image so it allows us to manually focus the image and the next one is silent photography so solid photography utilizes the in-camera electronic shutter and the last step is the starting storage folder so once these images are taken they are stored in a separate folder and you can select the name of that folder create a new folder which i will do by selecting it and i'll hit ok and all the images will be stored in a separate folder away from all your other images taken then it's a matter of just setting up the camera and hitting start okay now we have our camera set up we have the d780 here that we want to take an image of and we want to get it sharp right from the nikon logo here on the front lens cap right through to the back of the camera so the first step is to focus on the closest point to the camera which is the nikon logo and we then go into the menu and select focus shift shooting and all our settings that we set up before are still there and all we have to do is hit the start button the camera will take 10 consecutive shots of the camera the d780 and it's preparing and here it goes it's complete okay here we are in the playback menu and as you can see the last image that we took the back of the camera is super sharp now if i just scroll through to the very first image this image and the front of the camera is super sharp so all the images in between have slowly stepped right to the back of the camera so we should when we blend these in photoshop we'll have a super sharp product image of this camera so let me now show you a quick example on how to stack your images in adobe photoshop so the first step is to load your images into photoshop as layers okay i have 10 images that we've taken in the stack the focus stack and i'm going to go to edit and i'm going to auto align layers i'm going to select auto and hit ok now photoshop will take those 10 layers and align them perfectly just in case there was any movement in the shot okay so now the images have been aligned auto aligned the next step and the final step is to stack the images so we're going to go to the edit menu and we're going to select auto blend layers we're going to select stack images and hit ok [Music] and now photoshop will automatically blend focus blend those images so photoshop as you can see here has just completed stacking all those images and what it's done essentially is taken the sharpest points of each photo and stacked them together all into one image so you get this beautiful sharp right from the from the front of the lens cap right through to the back of the camera completely crisp sharp image so this this is a great way of doing all your macro close-ups type images but landscape is another aspect that you can use this technique particularly in landscape where you want to get a foreground image like some rocks or some tufts of grass in sharp focus and then keep it sharp right through to infinity to some mountains or maybe a seascape as you can see fragrance shift shooting is a very valuable technique to get your sharp images especially landscape macro and your close-up photography as you can see from the close-up we did today of the d780 we could not achieve a sharp image of that with one image so 10 images made it a nice sharp shot also the landscape image beautiful landscape image from from the front to the back of the image completely sharp this can be achieved only on our z6 and z7 mirrorless range it's a special feature of these cameras and today we've shot this complete video in 4k on the brand new mirrorless z50 a beautiful little camera we would love to see your images especially photo stacked images if you could hashtag macarthur camera house mch nikon so it's hashtag mch nikon and if you have would love to come and see the nikon range or ask the friendly staff here at macarthur camera house any questions come on into store they have the whole nikon range ready for you thank you for watching this is one of many videos to come thank you for watching again and we'll see you soon you

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 02 2020