The ingredients are whole wheat flower, a tiny amount of water, and an even tinier amount of oil.
The bread is indescribably delicious and to be appreciated fully it should be eaten the moment it is pulled from the open flame of the burner when it is still the size of a cantaloupe, a crisp and chewy charred ball filled with aromatic steam, and nothing else. There is a type of bread enjoyed daily by millions across the Indian subcontinent and around the world. So if these are such competent stackers, and they are, why aren’t we using them? To understand that, an analogy is in order. At the current time, there are two commercially available, affordable, stacking products that offer all or most of the required functionality and an intuitive graphic user interface Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker.
#ZERENE STACKER VS. HELICON FOCUS SOFTWARE#
So the technical challenge should be self evident - how do we blend these one thousand partially focused images into one fully focused one? We need a sophisticated focus stacking software program to do the heavy lifting. Let that constraint sink in for a moment - to build a composite image of a subject one millimeter deep, made up of images that are all in sharp focus, would require that the camera or subject move roughly one micron between capturing each of a thousand individual frames. At a magnification of 20X, for example, our depth of field is only around 2 microns, or 2 thousandths of a millimeter. (Oops, I used to be a Morris dancer/musician).The primary difficulty in capturing high resolution images of very small subjects using photographic equipment is a result of the very shallow depth of field at which we work. Just very slightly less of a geek/ train spotter/ Morris dancer/War gamer image. I am also very happy with my engine building, but photography is cleaner and it is more sociably acceptable as a hobby. I am very happy indeed with Zerene and recommend it without reservation. I am not a macro person which is when I guess stacking becomes very useful, but as a model engineer I wanted to do justice to my efforts not as art images but as documents of around 20 years of my model engine building. I guessed that maybe photoshop needs a regular procession of focus from one image to another in order, and that it could not cope with a number of images in which the focus point changed from image to image in no ordered manner. But I find making a stack using the touch-screen and tapping at the important points that I needed to be in focus, Photoshop often could not produce a proper stack. If I made a stack of images in order from focus at the front through to focus at the back of the scene then Photoshop coped tolerably well but with many ragged misfits at the edges. The stack was made not using a focus rail but by just manually changing the focus point at regular small intervals by turning the lens focus ring.īut yes I have tried CS6 for stacking large sets of images and in all honesty the results were mostly unusable. But I guess it shows what can be achieved with an ordinary consumer lens. With my particular computer system, the speed advantage of Zerene was quite considerable, and the relative ease of retouching in Zerene "sealed the deal" for me.Īctually when I look again at the flower image I posted, it is not a good example of what Zerene can do because there are a number of ragged edges that Zerene can so easily tidy up.
Zerene Stacker): I wonder if you had ever tried doing an 83-image stack with PS? My limited stacking trials using PS soon led me to become an enthusiastic Zerene user. Both can be seen larger on my Flickr site as above.Īs to your possibly being satisfied with PS CS6 (vs. The flower is a 83 image stack, and the engine is an 11 image stack. Here are a couple of examples of stacks using Zerene. But in truth if I had to pay any serious money I would just put up with the relatively poor resullts of stacking in Photoshop CS6 and live with the results.
#ZERENE STACKER VS. HELICON FOCUS TRIAL#
I tried other stacking programs just as trial downloads, and I liked Zerene the most.
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