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Creating a simple manual focus stack

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Creating a simple manual focus stack

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By this point, you should have enough macro shooting experience to know that shallow depth of field is often an obstacle to getting the macro shots that you want. The problem is simply that, at macro distances, depth of field is extremely thin, so thin that a detail that you really like on the flower may end up rendered out of focus when you've focused on something else that you won't see on the flower, or whatever your subject is. As you've seen with tiny camera movements, which are effectively tiny changes in focus, we can alter what part of our subject is sharp. If you've got much image editing experience, then you might have already thought, "What if I shot a few frames, each with a different part of my subject in focus, and then combined them somehow?" That's what focus stacking is. It's called focus stacking, because we're going to take a stack of images, each with focus at a different depth, and then we're going to combine them. As we move through this chapter, you're going to…

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