Focus Stacked Sparrows

© Photographer: William Wise | iNat Observation: 74301325 - Focus stacked images of two House Sparrows; Walton County, Georgia. February 4, 2021.

When it comes to photography, there are times when what you see is not what you get. These two sparrows were perched couple of feet apart, one closer to the lens than the other. But as we gaze with our naked eyes, our brain focuses instantly as we look from one to the other and we don’t often perceive any depth issues. But in photography, if the two objects don’t occupy the same plane, one will appear blurry.
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To remedy this issue, photographers use a technique call focus stacking. One photo shows one subject clearly, while the other is blurred, and vice versa. This photo is actually two separate photographs "stacked" upon one another. One shot had the House Sparrow closest to my camera in focus, and in the second shot I focused on the bird that was further away. The two images are then blended together to create one photo in which both House Sparrows are in focus. The step-by-step technique is a bit too lengthy to reproduce here. But there are numerous tutorials on the web.

© Photographer: William Wise | iNat Observation: 74301325 - House Sparrow; Walton County, Georgia. February 4, 2021.

© Photographer: William Wise | iNat Observation: 74301325 - House Sparrow; Walton County, Georgia. February 4, 2021.

Walton County, Georgia. Thursday, February 4, 2021.

• Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52. South wind around 5 mph.
• Sunrise 7:29 am; Sunset 6:09 pm
• Daylight Hours: 10 hours, 40 minutes (+1m 44s)
• Moon: 49.6% Third Quarter

Posted on 05 de fevereiro de 2022, 02:10 PM by williamwisephoto