Which do you prefer? Manual or Auto Focus Stacking

@markgoeman8139

4 жыл бұрын

I typically do an automatic focus stack then look at the results. If I'm not happy, then go to manual mode! Thanks Mark - your work is outstanding!

@Eli-lb1lc

4 жыл бұрын

Typically auto because I find it normally works, but then I do touch ups on the masks if I spot any errors.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@markgoeman8139 Much appreciated Mark - thank you! That’s typically what I do as well.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eli-lb1lc Yep, that’s what I do as well!

@davidaldridge3669

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eli-lb1lc Me too...

I've watched so many videos on editing manual photo stacked images but fair play to Mark this is the best of them,this one is a keeper so SAVE it people if you need to learn how to do this.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks o much Bob - music to my ears!

Mark you ARE the man when it comes to teaching. One thing I've always liked about your videos is that you never say "This is THE way to do it" You always say "This is MY way I do it" You also guide & explain EVERY step perfectly in how we can learn your techniques in creating better images from our photos. As ALWAYS I pressed the thumbs up before watching and was NOT disappointed 👌🏻 Thank you for your time and effort you put into your videos 😃

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Shane Smith Photography Thanks so much to you Shane! This comment means a lot - much appreciated🙏

Great and very clear -thanks a lot

I’ve been using focus stacking for macro for some time, processing dozens of focus steps in Zerene Stacker, but focus stacking for landscapes involves far fewer focus steps and a different approach. Binge watching tutorials on the subject and practicing, your video stands out for covering little details glossed over by others, such as brush settings, hot key shortcuts, etc. I’ve added these details to my crib notes. Big picture, I group the layers, then duplicate the group, then apply auto blend to the duplicate. If auto blend fails, then delete the duplicate, make a new duplicate and apply the manual method. A backup of the original aligned layer set is always readily available if a do over is necessary.

Great video, easy to understand thank you!

Thank you thank you so much for this!

Such a cool video. Thank you for sharing.

Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!

No fluff. Straight to the point. Love it!

Great vlog as usual. Well explained.

I am just starting out with luminosity masks and stacking and it's obvious that initially there is a lot to take in. I have to say though, having watched a number of videos already, that this one is by far the best both in terms of explanation and illustration. Too many of these videos make the mistake of 'assumed knowledge' on part of the viewer and fail to break down the steps slowly and with sufficient clarity. Keep up the good work.

Great tutorial Mark, thank you for all your help

Really clear instructions…bravo!!!!

Thanks for the thorough and detailed instructions!

Great clear explanation. Probably the clearest one I've seen in a while. Great stuff!!!

Your tutorials are very thorough, so much detail on each and every step. Great to learn from 👍🏻

Another awesome tutorial Mark. Thank you sir!

Excellent as always. Much appreciated

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Hey, what an incredible video. Keep up the superb work! I look forward to your next video.

Great easy to follow video Mark.

Great tutorial, thank you! I prefer this method.

by far the best explanation of manual fs thanks

The best tutorial.. Thanks 👍

Now I have something new to work on! Really like the video.

Mark I’m so glad I found your channel. Your vids would have to be the most relaxed and easy to follow I’ve found. Thank you so much, my editing has become so much easier and faster. Love your work mate.

Excellent educational video!!

Awesome Mark. Looking forward to trying this.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Mike!

Really clear explanation Mark, thanks! I'm going to give it a go!

Watched this again for a refresher on manual focus-stacking. Great stuff!

Awesome teaching techniques as always 👍 thank you and stay safe

Compliments. Great video/vlog. Clear and calm explanation. 👍👍👍

Clear, concise and to the point. Well done.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank ya Vincent!

Mark - Great Job very easy to follow - Thank you

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Michael!

thank you Mark for your great video, great content for learning with good quality video. keep it up.

As always thanks for a great video.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video Michael!

Great content and a wonderful explanation. Thank you, Mark.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rasesh!

Mark...I really enjoy your videos. They are concise and to the point along with being easy to understand when you're learning Photoshop. I particularly appreciate your focus stacking videos. Keep up the excellent work.

Thank you, Mark for a very thorough focus stacking video. My photo buddies and I have monthly photography “tasks” that we work on and Focus Stacking was for March. We are behind in our goals, so your vlogs came at a good time. I enjoy your step-by-step teaching style and you make it look so easy. Thanks again and we look forward to the next one!

Thanks Mark, excellent tutorial as usual.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Doug!

Subbed. Enjoy the way you take us through step by step. No rushing. Great job!

Nice tutorial. Thanks sir

Thank you very much Mark, this video was very informative and helpful!! 😊

Great stuff, very well explained. Thank you!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

R Garlin Much appreciated - thank you!

Fantastic tutorials Mark. For a complete beginner you make it very easy for me to understand, thank you 👍

Another great video, many thanks.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert!

Great video! Thanks so much!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for the focus stacking videos. Love how you teach.

I really appreciate the way you explain this process. Thank you.

Great video Mark, really looking forward to trying this! I’m always challenged with Focus Stacking water scenes, so I’m hoping this will solve it for me. Keep up the great work.

I see myself watching this at least 10 times working along with it. Thanks so much for this video. Very well done.

Great video Mark...thanks for this!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Thank you for this, simply put and I may even attempt it now. Cheers.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Walker Great to hear Ian - if you have any questions just let me know!

tank you, Mark! I'm in Brazil and learning a lot with your videos.

Of all the content creators I watch, your videos are always the ones I get the most value out of. No fluff and well put together. Thanks for the content!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Joseph Lee This is amazing to hear Joseph! I really appreciate you talking the time to let me know!

Thanks for this video!!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to do it!

Thanks Mark stay well.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank ya Jim! You do the same.

A relative newcomer to you channel. Thanks Mark for simply explaining all these topics that can seem so daunting but with a little know how are less so. In these times of social distancing, binge watching your content is a great way to pass the time and gain that knowledge.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Bradbeer Many thanks Andy! It’s great to hear you’re enjoying the channel! Be well!

Wow! Very clear Tutorial!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it - thank you!

Just watched your original video on auto focus stacking. Tried to send a message, but somehow, got bumped to another video (not yours), so I’m replying here. Very helpful information. I just did my first focus stack. One challenge I encountered is that, when exporting the files to Ps, they did not automatically convert to layers! (Yes, I chose the option for converting to layers.) So I had to manually convert them to layers. Then everything worked like a charm! Thank you for your videos, they are such a help. (Also appreciated the shout outs to Oregon! My home state!)

Amazing tutorial and video. Thank you for explaining it in so much detail.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to do it Brendon!

Amazing video! thanks

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! Thanks Alex!

Again.... Great video. Thank for all your help. Love your work. 👌👍👍

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Carlos!

...very well explained!! Thanks so much...greetings!!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Andreas!

This is the first tutorial i watched from you. But after watching tons of other tutorials one knows when someone does it perfect. God sound. No messing around. Showing what to click and when. And straight to the point. Well worth saving. Now im going to look at some of your other tutorials. Well done..

Hi Mark. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your clarity of instruction! Thanks. I usually do a manual focus, just like you taught me in another video of yours. Take care.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate this Mary - thanks so much!

Brilliant for the likes of me, just learning about how to use photoshop to get the best from my images. Such a strait forward, easy to understand approach. A breath of fresh air!

Great video! Thank you Very much 🙏

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

THanks so much!

Excellent thank you Mark, have struggled a little with this technique but now feel a bit more confident.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear the video was helpful Warren!

Thank you so much for the content you provide to your viewers.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

deft Glad to do it!

Thanks for the clear and helpful tutorial.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to do it Paul!

Great! Light bulb moment for me. You make it look so easy. Thanks Mark

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Johan!

This was the best youtube video I have seen around this area of photo editing

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Odd Sparrow This is great to hear - thank you!

Just completed this lesson. Worked great. Thank you. for this. Learn much more from Manual Focus Stacking

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it was helpful Jack!

Thanks, nice and concise workflow!!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bob!

This is awesome Mark! Thank you for doing this video. I saw the automatic focus stacking video from you earlier and went out to take some photos at the beach. I used an ND filter to make the water look silky and tried using the automated version of the method through Photoshop to focus stack. I was not able to achieve a good image due to some areas of the image being strangely in focus and out of focus at the same time. Now I know what was wrong and how to fix it using the manual method! I was about to delete a bunch of photos, but I think you saved them for me. I was about to say to myself, "well, maybe I just can't understand how to focus stack..." but this video helped a lot! Thank you!!

This was so well explained. You didn’t gloss over anything. Which is the big problem with so many tutorials. They usually skip over the intermediate steps and you’re left confused. Great video. Will be saving this and referring back to it time and again

Excellent tutorial

Nicely explained 👍🏻

MARK: Nice presentation. Just getting into focus blending/stacking. Your video presentation will help me to learn this technique. Thanks, Dick Clark

Thanks for the thorough explanation Mark, this technique saved an image of mine that PS could not auto stack properly.

I gotta do that edit sync more often. Often I’ll come back from a big shoot and start editing individually and I can never get them quite the same despite being shot in the same conditions. I learn something new from you every day.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Jared Weaver Thanks Jared! Glad to hear it!!

thanks,never tried this before but will give it a go.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Let me know if you have any questions

Great teaching this week's video, thank you ! It is going to improve my photography for sure because I was always taking pictures at max aperture the lens has to get the sharpest image possible but I was always disappointed in post when you realize the pictures are not sharp. I will definitely put this in practice for sure. Thanks again.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

MThebean Happy to do it & glad to hear it was helpful👍👍

Your videos are full of useful informations for me. Thank you.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank ya friend!

You have an absolutely flawless, precise and articulate style of presentation. For me this is a benchmark of how a tutorial should be done. Greatly appreciated - thank you.

Thanks for the very clear, step-by-step explanation. So often in these how-to videos, the presenter will race over details that might be trivial to the experienced, but which could leave the beginner totally stuck. That has happened to me a few times. But this was great. Successfully applied just now, and happy with the results!

Well done!

VERY well done. Thanks.....

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

John Michnowicz Much appreciated John!

Mark, Great instructional video. I am just now adding landscape photography to my portfolio (have been doing wildlife photos). This will greatly help me. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial on post processing!!

@cauger61

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to have some tutorial videos on "Focusing in Live view Mode"!!😊👍

Great video Thank you! :)

Thanks for this Video. I used to Auto focus only. But I will hands on Manual focus too.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to do it and thanks for watching this week’s video!

Hey Mark, this video mandatorily needs a big thumbs Up! 👏👏👏

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - really appreciate that!

Great instruction

Merci pour cette super vidéo ! 👍📸

As ever Mark, you make it easy to follow and understand. Great idea to create practice images too. Keep up the great work! Might need to reward yourself when this crisis is over and treat yourself to a photographic trip / workshops and holiday in Australia!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank ya Patrick! I would love to head over to Australia one day!

WOW Mark, you're approaching the 100.000 subscribers pretty quickly! Keep up with your great work!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Margarita N It’s so very exciting - Can’t believe it’s even reality!

Thank you for this video! I was able to do the same in PS Elements.

Hi. I’m new to your channel. I don’t leave comments too often, but I’d like to just say the quality of your KZread videos is stellar: excellent talking pace, information is concise, and overall just content is presented efficiently and effectively. Love it. I’m learning so much from you. I also gave you a follow on insta! Love your editing style because this is the style I been trying to mimic !