{"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","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 loading=\"lazy\" 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\/\">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, using Lightroom as your start Point and Photoshop to do all the clever blending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the editing before the tutorial starts was standard Lightroom tweaks, and and the tutorial leaves you in a position to do whatever you like with the image in Photoshop or Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit-1051x1536.jpg 1051w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit-1401x2048.jpg 1401w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/0713-Brimham-Rocks-Sunset-2020_12_14-by-McFade-Edit.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just cannot get everything in Focus in one shot&#8230; 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. 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