Comments on: How to Improve Your Long-Exposure Photography With Photo Stacking

By: Agoston Zacs

Agoston Zacs — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:43:16 +0000

Hi, Has anyone any idea why is Stack Mode in Layers menu greyed out on PS CS6?
The manual way of stacking the photos is working of course, but would like to spare some manual work 😉

By: Matt Oney

Matt Oney — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 23:38:29 +0000

Hey thanks so much, very useful. I personally found the manual stacking to work better for my project, as it offered more flexibility and control over lighting (basically making up for the imperfections in the way I got my shots 😛 ).

By: Simon Day

Simon Day — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:35:00 +0000

I’m sat here wondering… “Why didn’t I think of that?”. A brilliant article and one that will be VERY useful for me as I often shoot the pre-dawn and would love to add more sky movement without having to take 10+ minute exposure.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:04:00 +0000

In reply to Luca Libralato.

Thanks Luca…
So, if i need a 8 minutes exposure with a nd1000, i d better take a lower nd filter, stay within my 2 minutes limits and then stack 4 of them.

Am i right ?

By: Luca Libralato

Luca Libralato — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:23:00 +0000

In reply to Joe Donley. Normal mode, you just alter Opacity

By: Luca Libralato

Luca Libralato — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:22:00 +0000

In reply to Stephanie. It's not important the order, you can do it before or after. :-)

By: Luca Libralato

Luca Libralato — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:21:00 +0000

In reply to Vladimir.

Thank you very much Vladimir!

Yes, you can stack 2 minutes pictures, but they should be exposed correctly… so if your exposure time is 8 minutes, you should either raise ISO or increment aperture (whichever setting is more safe for your current settings)

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:51:00 +0000

Hi Luca,
Damn ! I really appreciate your awesome work !!!

One question : I’m unfortunately limited by 2 minutes with my G80 camera.
For example, if i use a ND filter that need 8 minutes, for example. Would it be possible to stack 4 pictures of 2 minutes ? Or would i have an under-exposed result ?
Thanks and Kind regards,
Vladimir

By: Jennifer wentworth

Jennifer wentworth — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:07:00 +0000

In reply to Luca Libralato. Thank you for the response maybe I didn’t specify correctly but I meant do change iso as well as aperature or keep those the same and only change shutter speed to take different lengths of shots

By: Luca Libralato

Luca Libralato — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:29:00 +0000

In reply to Luis Felipe Ulbrich. Hi, I did use raw files converted in TIF for the original work... I just used JPG to prepare the screenshots for the article! Sorry if it created confusion!