It's not loading them as raw files, that's not possible, it's having to process them into some kind of actual picture data and it's loading that. Now, if this goes well, what's gonna happen is it's gonna automatically create a new document in Photoshop and load each one of these separate images into a separate layer. And from there I'm going to choose open as layers in Photoshop. Two ways I can do that, I can either right-click to get to this menu, or I can just come up here to the menu bar and go to the photo menu and either place I'm going to see edit in. I've selected all of these, I'm ready to pass them on to Photoshop. Lightroom's gonna take care of doing that for me. Speaking of raw format, these are raw images. Now you don't need to go in and analyze your images before you do each stack, I just wanted you to see what a stack of images looks like in their raw format. This is why I was saying when we were shooting we're gonna need to pad our composition with some extra space, because there is going to be a crop necessary. Look at the difference between where this petal is in this image, and further down the line it's way, way, way back. You can also see how much crop we're probably going to face. But something to take note of here, that I didn't really notice while I was doing it, it looks like this entire image is blurry and when I come over here and look at my shutter speed, I see that I was at 125th, so I was probably having some handheld shake problems here and I wasn't doing a great job on this first set of pushing in real smoothly. Here you can see this is in focus now, while this is not in focus back here. As I move forward, I should see that zone of focus moving though the image. And in this image, I've got focus very close to me. This is the first image in what's going to be my final stack. Before I do that though, let's just do a little reconnaissance here on what we've got. Took very little time to go through all of these and organize them into stacks, and so now I'm ready to start thinking about combining them all. Aha, so this is the beginning of the next batch so I just grabbed everything from here, back to here and stacked them. That's actually pretty easy to do because as I move through the images, you can see me just pushing forward here and when I get to the end of the batch, the composition is going to change very suddenly. All of these different pictures, and so you need to be able to sort through, and figure out which ones get stacked. When you first pull all of this stuff out of the camera, it's just a ton of data. So I've gone ahead and stacked my images already. So, again, either Bridge or Lightroom is going to allow you to easily grab a bunch of images and pass them to that photo stacking mechanism. But the focus stacking that is built into Photoshop works really well, and if you own Photoshop you've already got it. There are applications that are dedicated to the process of focus stacking. You could also do it in another application, except that I'm going to use Photoshop for my stacking, so working out of Lightroom and Bridge gives me a really easy workflow. Now I'm doing this in Lightroom, but you could just as easily do this in Bridge. You can see that I've got a bunch of stacks here. It's actually very simple, and here's where we're going to see if this whole handheld thing really works out. And I'm gonna take you through that process. They're in the computer, and we're gonna see if we can get them stacked together. So this week, we're gonna do that second part. With the hope that I would be able to now bring them into my computer and stack them together to create an image with the depth of field. I was trying handheld focus stacking, and you saw me throw the camera into burst mode, aim at the flowers, and while bursting, move the camera forward a little bit to get a bunch of overlapping images. Well, not dead flowers, but decrepit flowers, and a Canon 5D Mark II with a 100 mm macro lens on it. If you saw last weeks Practicing Photographer, you saw me and a bunch of dead flowers.
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