Stockhill Woods

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7657

Focus Stacking

Today the weather was poor – dull, grey and wet.  So I took the opportunity to practice focus stacking.  Focus stacking is where you take a series of pictures of the same scene each with a different focus distance.  Then in Photoshop they are blended together into a single image.

I went up the road to Stockhill Woods.  My aim was to get an entire moss covered wall in focus, or to get a whole group of trees in focus.

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7513

In this shot the focus stacking worked well.

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7521

Other images did not work as the fern fronds moved too much between each shot.

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7626

I thought the moss covered dry-stone walls and trees looked really good.

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7530

And finally…

There is a tree in Stockhill Wood that is decorated each Christmas.

Stockhill Woods – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_7843