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In-camera focus stacking

In-camera focus stacking

- Like most forms of specialized shooting macro photography has its own set of technical hurdles that you have to cross, and probably the biggest hurdle and probably one that you've already encountered if you've even just dabbled in macro photography is depth of field, or rather lack of depth of field. At macro distances, like I have here between this macro lens and this flower, it's very hard to get depth of field that goes all the way through your subject, as you get closer and closer to your subject, depth of field gets shallower and shallower. So as you can see in this image, the front petal is in focus, the rest of the flower quickly drops off into being blurry. This week on the Practicing Photographer we're gonna look at a new-ish technology for addressing deep depth of field, whether you're working as a macro shooter or even as a landscape shooter. This is a Fuji GFX 50S this is a medium format camera that has built into it, a technology called Focus Stacking, although Fuji…

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