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Theme of the Week returns!
Our recent survey asked if you wanted to retain the weekly theme on our Flickr site. The answer is yes. For those who may not have engaged with this yet here's how it works. Each week a theme/topic is set. During the week you shoot or process an image in that theme. and load it on the Flickr site. One image will be selected as the "theme pic of the week" and published in the following week's newsletter.
Why bother? The theme pic gives you an opportunity to explore and try out many different styles and types of photography. It increases the variety of images on our site and is an excellent opportunity to expand your creativity and photography skills and you get your picture in the weekly newsletter!
Please note this is not a competition. The image chosen each is selected to encourage and inspire us. It may be the most technical but could also be selected as the most unusual, the most creative, the funniest or the one that appealed to us the most. The pictures are selected by a different member of the team each week to ensure varied viewpoints.
So to restart the themes -
Theme of the Week: Photo Stacking
Photo Stacking involves taking several photos of the same subject with the camera on a tripod. The only setting changed from shot to shot is the focus distance. So your first shot is focused close to the camera and successive shots are focused further away for each successive shot.
Then in photoshop or affinity photo, all the images are automatically stacked so that the sharpest part of each is selected and blended to give a single image with a huge depth of field, which you could not get with a single shot. This technique is mostly used in landscape, macro and astrophotography. It can also be used for star trails and HDR images and for these you don't even need to change the focus.
A beginners guide to photo stacking:
https://digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-guide-to-focus-stacking/
Focus stacking with Lightroom:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/focus-stacking.html
4 ways to use photo stacking:
https://www.lightstalking.com/4-ways-to-use-image-stacking-to-create-better-images/
The following are the theme titles for the next 5 weeks if you want to start practising:
In the style of Ray Metzger
Formal Portrait
Rule of odds
HDR
Dragging the shutter |
