Tethered HDR processing for focus stacking

[perdu34]

I think this is going to be a pretty niche use case for Lightroom and I am not sure there will be a good workaround for it.

The goal is to produce an HDR focused stacked image without hours of clicking ^H

My ideal situation is to have my camera tethered to the computer and it to automatically shoot the bracketed focus stack. As every every HDR set is captured it is automatically imported and merged to HDR and a new tiff file produced in a new folder. That stack of tiff files can then be read by the stacking software and a fully-in-focus image produced (the stacking software can't read RAW files).

Is this possible?

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

No, not fully automatic. You'll have the select the HDR brackets and then select Ctrl-H. If you select Ctrl-Shift-H, the HDR dialog will be skipped so you can do this fairly quickly for each set of brackets. The HDR images that Lightroom produces will not be TIFF, but DNG. As your focus stacking software probably can't deal with that either, you would first have to develop these DNG in Lightroom, and then export each one as TIFF.