#COMBINEZM REVIEW MOVIE#
If you get a lot of blur or artifacts in your focus stacked shots, you might need to tweak the program a bit-check out the included help file for details.ĬombineZM has one more trick up its sleeve: You can use it to make a movie out of all the frames in your focus stack. I've gotten pretty good results, especially when I'm careful to keep each photo in my series aligned by using a tripod. Then sit back for about 5 minutes and wait while the program combines the photos into a finished product. You should see one of them appear in the CombineZM window.įrom here, it's all automated. In CombineZM, choose File, New and select the photos you just shot. You should take between three and five photos to capture the whole scene.Īfter you're done shooting, copy the photos to your PC and start CombineZM. Then shift the focus slightly and take the next shot. Set your camera to manual focus and tweak the focus until the rear of the scene is in sharp focus. As you can see here, I chose to use a pocket watch on a stand, but you can choose a flower, coins, or anything that makes an interesting subject. Set your camera on a tripod and aim it at something you want to photograph. They don't need to be macro photos, but since macros have such infamously narrow depth of field, it's the best way to experiment with focus stacking. Ready to get started? You'll need some photos to combine in CombineZM.
#COMBINEZM REVIEW INSTALL#
Install CombineZM and you can play along at home. This week, let's try CombineZM, a free program.
#COMBINEZM REVIEW HOW TO#
The last time we talked about this, I told you how to use Helicon Focus, which costs $30. Pretty neat, right? It's sort of like a variation panoramic stitching or combining images into a high dynamic range photo. Then you use a program to "stack" the photos and combine them so all the in-focus bits were merged into one photo that was sharp from front to back. This time, though, you set the camera on a tripod and take a series of three or four photos, each with a slightly different focal point, so a different part of the picture is sharp in each shot.
You know that depth of field is very narrow in macro photos, so ordinarily you'd have to choose which part of the photo will be in focus, as you see in the picture on the left.
Imagine you want to take a close-up photo. Combine Studio Is a web design company based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire - We work with Clients & Agencies across the UK to create. In this case, the technique has become known as focus stacking. Read detailed, verified, client reviews about Combine Studio. RESULTS: The stacking process of photographs with CombineZM freeware provides significant increase in extent of depth of field and wider area of image clarity, producing a sharp, high-quality image. Whenever enough people start experimenting with a new photo technique, it invariably gets its own name. The images were loaded into CombineZM software for processing.