Overcoming Camera and Lens Limitations

Reach beyond your camera's abilities with a combination of smart shooting and post-processing. Learn how to focus stack images, create panoramas, and blend exposures for HDR photos.

Introduction

• Welcome to overcoming camera limitations

1. Focus Stacking for Depth of Field

• Understanding focus stacking
• Focus stacking using autofocus
• Focus stacking using manual focus
• Focus stacking using a speed method

2. Editing Focus Stacked Images

• Post-processing a focus stack using Photoshop
• Using Helicon Focus to focus stack a set of images
• Comparing three focus stacked images

3. Strategies for Creating Panoramas

• Techniques for capturing hi-res panoramas
• Taking a JPEG panorama to compose
• Using a tripod and a long lens for a hi-res pano
• Using a tilt-shift lens to create a panorama

4. Editing Panoramas in Photoshop

• Processing a hi-res panorama in Photoshop
• Processing a tilt-shift panorama

5. Exposure Blending for HDR Images

• Introduction to exposure blending
• Shooting a set of images for an exposure blend
• Using the bracketing feature for an exposure blend
• Using the Sky HDR app in the Sony a7R for an exposure blend

6. Editing and Processing an Exposure Blend

• Automatically blending exposures in Lightroom
• Manually blending images to get good exposure
• Evaluating the results of the Sky HDR app image

Conclusion

• Next steps