[Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?

[J Bryan Kramer]

That should just be a lighting problem. Grazing light should add some shadow
relief to the fossils. I don't understand why you would need to stitch shots
together unless you are shooting a plate of fossils that is too large to fit
in the lens field of view. If you have a group of shots that you want to
stitch get with me off list and I can do some for you since I do have that
expensive CS3 software. There is freeware stitching software, you pay in
usability tho.

BK

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tim Jokela Jr. <tjokela at execulink.com>
wrote:

> This one goes out to the digital photography gurus out there.
>
> I was talking to a buddy last night about macrophotography of small
> fossils, 1-3cm stuff, and how capturing any depth of field continues to be
> the major challenge. He suggested three ways of doing it: buy the $25,000
> camera system made to do the job, take the picture 3 meters away from the
> specimen and blow up the image, or take multiple shots, focusing on
> different areas, and stitch them together with Helicon, Combine-Z, or the
> expensive new version of PhotoShop.
>
> All are basically horrible options.
>
> So, is there anything new and interesting in the world of digital
> photography that's giving depth of field to macrophotography in a simple,
> affordable manner? (My weapon of choice atm is a Canon Digital Rebel with a
> 50mm macro lens.)
>
> Many thanks for any info!
>
> Tim Jokela Jr., tjokela at execulink.com
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J Bryan Kramer
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