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<p>[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 2709603, member: 73983"]I'm not sure what technique Ray uses for his 3-D rendering. But it actually wasn't all that difficult to do. The height image was a total of 102 images. I angled the quarter at around 80 degrees, so almost edge on. My focus adjustments were simply manual. I just gave very slight rotation to my focusing knob with my hand and clicked away in Live View using the Nikon Capture Pro Software. Trust me, I would LOVE to have a Cognisys StackShot rail or the less expensive WeMacro, but I just haven't ponied up for them yet. After this though, I just might splurge a bit. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The actual amount of time it took to shoot and stack the images was shorter believe it or not then shooting one of my animated gif's. I started out using Photoshop to align the layers and then combine them, but it took a LONG time to do the processing. Photoshop would take around 45-50 minutes to process the 100 36MP images. When I switched up to Helicon Focus, the processing time was reduced to about 10-15 minutes. Much better!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a photo of the setup with the quarter. Those light cubes are CoinSafe square Half Dollar tubes. They are my new favorite for diffusing my jansjos. They are a nice neutral white and emit a lot of light.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]611489[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 2709603, member: 73983"]I'm not sure what technique Ray uses for his 3-D rendering. But it actually wasn't all that difficult to do. The height image was a total of 102 images. I angled the quarter at around 80 degrees, so almost edge on. My focus adjustments were simply manual. I just gave very slight rotation to my focusing knob with my hand and clicked away in Live View using the Nikon Capture Pro Software. Trust me, I would LOVE to have a Cognisys StackShot rail or the less expensive WeMacro, but I just haven't ponied up for them yet. After this though, I just might splurge a bit. :) The actual amount of time it took to shoot and stack the images was shorter believe it or not then shooting one of my animated gif's. I started out using Photoshop to align the layers and then combine them, but it took a LONG time to do the processing. Photoshop would take around 45-50 minutes to process the 100 36MP images. When I switched up to Helicon Focus, the processing time was reduced to about 10-15 minutes. Much better!! Here's a photo of the setup with the quarter. Those light cubes are CoinSafe square Half Dollar tubes. They are my new favorite for diffusing my jansjos. They are a nice neutral white and emit a lot of light. [ATTACH=full]611489[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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