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Specimen Setup:
All images should must have a scale bar. The color bar is optional, but including highly recommended, it is very useful during post-processing. Background should be black velvet, brown velvet or white cardstock. Specimens should be well lit, with no opaque shadows and no ‘hot spots’ of overexposed areas. If this is not possible, err on the side of too dark, as you can always lighten an image but you cannot restore detail where overexposure has obscured it.
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1) Find the lowest point of relief on the specimen. The scale bar laid beside the specimen is a very good proxy for this point.
2) In the live view window, click this spot.
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- DOF preview you get a view of your near and far points, so you can verify that they are OK.
- Selecting Highlight focused areas will cause the in focus pixels to highlight in blue.
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11) Exposure bracket is the next section, but we don’t use it. If you were doing HDR photography, this would be where you set your exposures.
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12) The Advanced Settings section lets you adjust white balance and temperature.
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- Higher numbers give a yellow/orange tint
- Lower numbers give a blue tint
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14) Hit the Start shooting icon.
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15) When the lens stops moving hit Helicon Focus button.
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Helicon Focus (HF)
1) The images from Helicon Remote will populate into the image selection panel.
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