Update – Aug 2020: I’m happy to note that Fuji has significantly improved their focus stacking option by providing “automatic” focus stacking in their most recent cameras. You select a starting point, ending point using manual focus, hit start and the camera will collect the right number of images for your lens and focal length. Really cool.
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Happy New Year. Hope your holiday season was fabulous.
This post is specific to Fuji users, so everyone else can have a break. We’ll see you in a couple weeks.
In mid-2018, Fuji provided an upgrade to the firmware of it’s X-series of cameras. Known for adding new features and functions, Fuji users were delighted to see the addition of new menu options and one particular update: the addition of in-camera focus “bracketing”.
Unfortunately, there was a series of missteps with the upgrade and it was initially retracted, then re-released, which is a surprise for a company that prides itself on its quality options for photographers.
Even though it was corrected, Fuji made another mistake in not providing useful information to help us get the most of the upgrade. This post is specifically about focus bracketing. Continue reading “Fuji’s Focus Bracketing Explained”
What does that have to do with photography? As it turns out, every part of a digital image is a set of values – for size, dimensions, camera settings, colour space, etc. We’ve long had the ability to manipulate any one value to our liking through the sliders we see in modern editing software. Now it seems we also have the ability to redefine broad swaths of data at once. Find out how. 
What are filters and why are they separate from adjustments? And what the heck is rasterizing anyway? Or the difference between “rasters” and “vectors”? And what is “rendering”? And of course, the single most important concept – non-destructive vs. destructive editing.
I’ve been hearing and reading quite a bit about this thing called computational photography. It is such a new field that what’s in and what’s out, or even the language with which it is communicated, is not yet well defined. But it can be applied to any form of optical capture, whether in the science lab or in the artist’s studio.
That said, there is both artistic and practical value in marking a photograph as yours. This post looks at some of the more popular ways to do that. 
I come from a generation born before televisions were common in middle class homes. We relied on a radio for news and our only “social network” was the people we knew in the neighbourhood, at school, through our parents or through our church. Getting your name out there was done by word of mouth and by advertising on the radio and in the “yellow pages” or other print publications.
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