This is the eastern cousin to Charles`s Grasshopper 3D . One question, why am I getting banding of colors in my backgrounds sometimes. The background is 15" behind the subject (just a wall).
F/5.6
ISO100
Ex .5
Canon 400D, Canon 100mm Macro, 84 images stacked with Helicon Focus
Info the same as above, stack of 43 images
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Nice hopper!
I've seen banding like this with HF "Method B" ever since that method appeared. I haven't studied it very closely, but I suspect it appears when there is variation in background brightness from frame to frame. If this is strobe lit, variations in the strobe brightness from frame to frame could be responsible.
If you are using Method B, then give the older Method A a shot -- it usually does better with hairs and overlapping detail anyway.
And if this already is Method A, I'd like to know that.
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I've seen banding like this with HF "Method B" ever since that method appeared. I haven't studied it very closely, but I suspect it appears when there is variation in background brightness from frame to frame. If this is strobe lit, variations in the strobe brightness from frame to frame could be responsible.
If you are using Method B, then give the older Method A a shot -- it usually does better with hairs and overlapping detail anyway.
And if this already is Method A, I'd like to know that.
--Rik
basicly, I just use HF right out of the box and I do not change any parameters, so, whatever it is set to by default is how I use it. Right now I am using two lamps that came with a small portable lightbox I bought at a camera store.
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I searched the archives for any more information about the banding. One comment I found (that I had posted and then forgotten! ) was that Method B
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Perhaps the ambient light in the room was gradually changing as you shot your stack?created obvious banding in the background from what had previously been an unnoticed shift in background brightness from back to front of the stack
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Could be. There are several aspects of the appearance that make me lean toward stacking artifact, but it would take some more investigation to know for sure.Cyclops wrote:As for banding i thought that was down to jpeg compression.
Doug, be sure that HF is set to produce highest quality jpeg output. Reduce quality to meet forum size limits only as the very last step, after all cropping & resizing. That way you can compare before & after to see what got lost. Many tools, like Photoshop, will interactively show you a preview of what jpeg compression will do to your image, so you can pick an appropriate level on the fly. I generally go for the highest quality that still fits in 200 KB.
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