Focus Stacking

[Dean Wilson]

Software: Lightroom for base editing (Profile/White Balance), then Photoshop for File/Scripts/Load Files into Stack

Both there photos were taken indoors one after the other, however you can see in the results the orange

flower in the first photo is totally Off-the-Mark. The second photo is more along the lines I would expect.

Camera settings: Focus increment set to 1

Any ideas? (I can not get Lightroom to "Open in Photoshop as Layers" to work)

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[THXGEEK]

Sorry, I've only done limited focus stacking - and it was with my Sony & Fuji, stacked with Helicon.

The second pic is quite nice!

 

[Bryan Conner]

I think the problem is related to using f2.8 on the first shot. I normally have my increment setting on 3, 4 is the default. For flowers and smaller subjects, I shoot 19 shots. This is on my R6 Mark II. And even though Canon recommends using f5.6-f11, I have had good luck with f2.8 with my 105mm Sigma Macro lens with flowers.
I used my Google machine and asked Mr. Google Gemini about your problem. It said your R5 and my R6 MkII are similar with focus bracketing. Here is his response, which is what I suspected:

 

[Dean Wilson]

I think the problem is related to using f2.8 on the first shot. I normally have my increment setting on 3, 4 is the default. For flowers and smaller subjects, I shoot 19 shots. This is on my R6 Mark II. And even though Canon recommends using f5.6-f11, I have had good luck with f2.8 with my 105mm Sigma Macro lens with flowers.
I used my Google machine and asked Mr. Google Gemini about your problem. It said your R5 and my R6 MkII are similar with focus bracketing. Here is his response, which is what I suspected:
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...and thus the F/8 didn't have the same issue.