From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)
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Shooting a focus stacked image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)
Shooting a focus stacked image
- A lot of photographers have experienced the benefits of shooting with a macro lens for closeups on objects. The challenge though is even with the macro lens, it can be difficult to keep everything in focus. Sometimes you have a wide range of objects or a long object that really just cannot be completely crisp. Now, objects that are far away are easy to keep in focus but as you get closer and closer to the camera, you do have tougher times keeping things perfectly crisp. Fortunately, there's a technique that combines post-production and production and it's called focus stacking. What this allows you to do is to take multiple images that are shot with different points of focus set in each image. Then inside of Photoshop, it's easy to combine those into one document and let Photoshop automatically merge them together, keeping the best parts of each area in focus. Now shooting this is pretty straightforward, but it's absolutely critical that you use a tripod. You need the camera to be…
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