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Dish of blueberries
  •  Comment Yes, stacking - you can see Category bellow: Focus stacking images of food. I even try more to be out, not so sure, but sometime, when shooting one type of food you dont need to focus on all. Here neither i want to. Problem is those 4 were so close, and on macro all is so close. It's not paper, see the bottom in one of those 4, its white background - textile. So, i even wanted back of it a bit out of focus. Food shots arent panorama, unfocused stuff in very often presented. White bowl, white backgoround → bowl doesn't need to be sharp, if black back and white bowl then borders should be more sharp. Some poeple even join (blurr) white bowl with white back. --Mile (talk) 19:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The problem with a partly-done focus stack, as we see here, is the rather abrupt change from sharp fruit/bowl throughout most of the image, and the front portion. This is not how one's eye sees it nor how a typical photograph works. We normally get a visual clue about distance in a 2D image like this, by the way the focus slowly changes, but here that clue is disrupted and the effect is a bit artificial. To be honest, I don't see the need to focus stack food photos, and doing so gives the impression that FPC or good food photography somehow needs front-to-back sharpness. -- Colin (talk) 12:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually my intention was to focusstack just piece of it (and more wider than single shot would do), so not all. Since i put 4 down on right, i wanted them sharp, thats why blueberry on left (in bowl) seems out. Different stuff is in this shot, different fruits and i wanted them sharp, so stacking needed. And one more is above now, cake, not stacked, i like it as it is. And i dont know how much now people want it to be sharp, what portion... So best, do as you consider best. One will vote not sharp, one will say dont stack. So best is up to my taste. --Mile (talk) 13:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Support--Peulle (talk) 22:03, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Impressive. Focus stacking often leaves stacking errors in the merged photo. Either you got lucky with the initial merge or you spent a lot of time fixing stacking errors. Only one of my stacks has got to FP. PumpkinSky talk 13:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mile, PumpkinSky and anyone interested. If you have trouble with stacking a lot of photos, you can reduce the chance of stacking errors by stacking the pics a few at the time and then combine those. Say you have 18 pics, taken in a sequence of say back to front and you want to process those in Photoshop. Combine three photos at a time: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-16 and 17-18. After that you combine the first resulting three and the last resulting three. Finally you combine those two photos. That way your software don't have so many parameters to check against each other and you get cleaner pics with less post-stacking to process. --cart-Talk 21:59, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart, Mile, and all others: Thanks Cart! A wise photographer also taught me that even though for a particular single shot you may want f10-11, if you are taking multiple shots for a focus stack, to cut that to say F5-7 or so. PumpkinSky talk 23:48, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Might be some on it, but i am used to correct it manually, doing stack you need to learn. PumpkinSky thats because software is taking sharp part, my m4/3 and APS-C is more on 5-7 than 10-11, that is for FF probably. But FF isnt good for macro. --Mile (talk) 08:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Ikan Kekek one of those 4 out should be sharp, if not stacked nothing is fully sharp. Doing single shot is option, but probably something like this. There was cake yesterday, nice looking cake. They minus it i couldnt even vote. Because was "not sharp". One more reason, i couldnt make one for English Wiki and one for Commons. Since i know there might be problem. --Mile (talk) 17:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 22:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Food and drink#Fruits and raw vegetables
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