How to deal with foreground object?

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DivinePotatoe
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How to deal with foreground object?

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Hi,

I'm making microscope pictures of an insect and I can"t get is eyes correctly.
The "helmet" is closer to the objective than the eyes and when the eyes are in focus the "helmet" is defocused and bleeding on the eyes.
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Is there a workaround?

Note that this is a microscope so I can't change the aperture to get a different depth of field.

Thanks.
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Please upload your stack to our server (as described at http://www.heliconsoft.com/ftp-server/) and we will see what is happening.
If you are user of GoogleDrive, DropBox, OneDrive or other cloud service, you can upload your files there and send us a link.
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Re: How to deal with foreground object?

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I was wondering if you guys came up with a suggestion / answer re this issue. I am having the same issue when the foreground object "bleed" into the background objects. I also have an issue of a "glow" which seems to me to be the same issue - when the object is out of focus it appears to be bigger than when it is in focus. So there is a soft glow around the sharp image (see example below - glow around the stem that is directly in the center of the photo as well as around the droplets).

Any feedback would be most appreciated!
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Please upload your stack to our server as described at http://www.heliconsoft.com/ftp-server/
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Hi Stas - sorry for the delay in my reply - I was out of town for the past two weeks.

Since this is the first time when I need to upload something to Helicon, I just want to make sure I clearly understand what I need to send you. When talking about "upload the stack" are you referring to the original RAW files that I used to create the image? There are 60 files there and including the edited TIF file, that is total of 1.6GB.

Is that what you are asking for?
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You can upload .JPG source images.
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Hi Stas - I have uploaded the stack as JPEG files - they are on your ftp site inside the zip file called "DSC_7155 BLURB.zip". (ftp://217.12.211.23/)
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Thanks for your images. This is mostly due to optical effect. I would recommend to decrease aperture to f8 or f11. This will also help to remove blurred areas which appear because focused areas do not overlap sufficiently.
From our tests, method C gives best results for the current stack.
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Stas - thanks for looking into it! I will try your suggestions.
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