MRphotography Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Hi I am new in photography and using Affinity as well. I experiment with my camera and multiple focus points and multiple exposure . I am wandering using Affinity, what is the best way to create a very clear landscape photo with great DoF and to be HDR. The steps I have in my minds is: 5 different exposures for each exposure 9 different focal points then on Affinity I am thinking to merge the focal points first (grouped by exposure) , so I will get five new photos where each one now includes all focal points but has different exposure then I will do the HDR merge is this a right approach ? and how I control/decide the correct DoF (lets say is a landscape or night skyscrapers wig water in front or stars) many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I was going to say HDR first, Focus Merge second. However I think that it will really depend on your subject matter. I would suggest that you try it both ways and report back here. I'm sure that many members would be interested to see your results. John MRphotography 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, MRphotography said: how I control/decide the correct DoF (lets say is a landscape or night skyscrapers wig water in front or stars) I suggest you get a depth of field calculator. These are several apps available that will do this for you. John MRphotography 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 There is a very good App for smart phones called PhotoPills, what it doesn't do isn't worth knowing about. It has a DoF calc and a DoF table. MRphotography 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 9 different focal points sounds too many. I'd start by finding how small an aperture you can use without seeing diffraction effects and then do some hyperfocal distance calculations to see how many exposures you need. My guess would be only 2 or 3. John Rostron and MRphotography 2 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRphotography Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 Thanks All, i found also this link, which is more or less the approach you suggested https://photographersbreakthrough.com/get-mad-skills/hdr-and-focus-stacking I have also PhotoPills but didn't use it yet! I visit this point below very often so I will try to do more using the same point. This phot below is just my first try, 10 shots , same exposure but 10 different focus points without focal point calculation (just put f8) with 37mm APS-C. colour effect is using Nik on affinity ( i really love it) and focus merge on affinity is soooo simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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