Questions tagged [image-stacking]
the process of combining multiple exposures to increase sharpness, reduce noise or for special effects, e.g. star trails
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Create long exposure images from videos
With the idea of doing false long exposure as found here:
https://petapixel.com/2020/10/19/how-to-use-photoshop-to-turn-video-into-long-exposure-photos/
https://patdavid.net/2013/09/faking-nd-...
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When to use image stacking?
By image stacking I mean the averaging of a number of separate photos to reduce noise, not focus stacking to increase depth of field. This requires the subject to be static and the use of a tripod. So ...
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How does image stacking work with astrophotography, when then sky rotates and therefore causes misalignment of the stack images?
How does image stacking work for astrophotography? If you were to stack the photos onto each other, then surely they would be out of line, due to the stars moving, right? Even if you take pictures ...
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Issue in file selecting to stack in Registax5
I have taken 1998 images of sun using a neural density filter. I preprocessed the images using PIPP and got a list of cropped images which were arranged in order of their quality. But then when I try ...
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Stack photos on hard drive like Lightroom Classig does [duplicate]
Lightroom has following feature for files loaded into its work environment.
Automatically stack photos by capture time
Lightroom Classic can automatically stack photos in a folder or a collection ...
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lightroom style "image stacking" with actual files and folders on HDD?
Lightroom classic has photo stacking feature that can divide loaded images in stacks (folders) based on difference between capture time (timestamp).
Need same functionality outside lightroom in ...
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Arcs in stacked star field [closed]
Stacking by Sequator 100 dng photos of night sky taken with a smartphone resulted in a (beautiful, I would say) populated star field where undesired arc strikes are seen all over the field.
It is ...
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How to remove satellite streaks from photos?
I found myself struggling a bit removing satellite streaks from my astrophotography. The best option that I found is to use the Healing brush tool in Photoshop, but this has the danger of removing ...
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Grainy rings on photos after stacking StarryLandscapestacker
I am having an issue that I am hoping for help here. I take astro pictures using:
Nikon D850 with a Sigma 14mm F1.8 Dg ART lens on a tripod. I usually take a 6-10 images of the the night sky and ...
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Will stacking more images produce more detail in this galaxy photo?
I've just started doing a bit of astrophotography and finally after the third night of trying I found my target, the Whirlpool galaxy. I'm pleased I've managed to capture it but I'm looking into how I ...
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What is the advantage of carrying a tripod and ND-filters when you could use image stacking instead?
From my understanding, if you want to take a long exposure of a landscape shot like the picture below, you have two options:
Carry a heavy tripod everywhere you hike and then use a series of ...
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Is it possible to combine several manually taken photographs of a still presentation slide into an image of a better quality?
I often go to presentations and take photos of slides. Sometimes I sit too far, and photos come out blurred or noisy.
It is known that if to take N photographs of the same object from exactly the ...
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Why are my stacked RAW images overexposed in DeepSkyStacker?
When I use Deepskystacker for stacking about 40 pictures (RAW) of a Galaxy (underexposed), I always get overexposed tif results. When I stack these pictures in Photoshop and use smart objects and ...
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How to exposure stack RAW photos while also outputting a raw photo?
So I have .DNG files that I have taken from an iPhone and I'm trying to figure out how to stack them and then output the stacked photo as a ...
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Exposure in Astrophotography [closed]
So, when taking a photo of the stars, I've generally taken photos at about ISO 3200, 20 seconds, f/3.5. I subsequently stack about 5 of them to get rid of the noise, which seems to work relatively ...