{"id":12045,"date":"2020-12-15T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:16:45","slug":"how-to-get-maximum-sharpness-with-focus-stacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-get-maximum-sharpness-with-focus-stacking\/%20","title":{"rendered":"How to get Maximum Sharpness with Focus Stacking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to get MAXIMUM sharpness using Focus Stacking\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiaW68ALyxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes you just cannot get everything in Focus in one shot&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happens a lot when you are photographing landscapes with a very close foreground, the background becomes blurry if you focus on the foreground, and vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this tutorial I show you two photos I took of the exact same scene, all the settings were absolutely identical except in one photo I focussed On The Rock in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/creating-depth-understanding-the-importance-of-foreground-middleground-and-background\/\" target=\"_blank\">foreground<\/a>, and the second photo was focused on the end of the rock a little bit further away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This tutorial takes you through the process of blending the two to images, 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