HelionFocus: Increasing Depth-of-Field By Blending Exposures
Thursday, July 27th, 2006DIY Photography links to an interesting piece of software called HelionFocus. Essentially what this does for you is allows you to take multiple photos of the same subject and and change the focus point in each shot. You then import the separate photos into HelionFocus, and it blends them into one completely in-focus image. This could be huge for landscape photographers who want to have everything in a scene in focus, but shoot at the “sweet spot” of their lens (whichever aperture has the highest quality, usually around f/8).
This is really a cool idea—people can blend multiple exposures to get the correct exposure, so why not apply that to focus as well? I’m going to see if I get a chance to try this out this weekend. I’ll post back with what I find.