{"id":6231,"date":"2015-09-21T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:11:43","slug":"see-how-easily-focus-stacking-you-gives-ultimate-sharpness-in-your-landscape-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/see-how-easily-focus-stacking-you-gives-ultimate-sharpness-in-your-landscape-photos","title":{"rendered":"See How Easily Focus Stacking You Gives Ultimate Sharpness In Your Landscape Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Focus Stacking in Landscape Photos<\/h1>\n<p>If you like to get everything pin sharp in your landscapes, Focus Stacking\u00a0is for you.<\/p>\n<p>If you shoot low with foregrounds which are very close to the lens, then it can be hard to get the background AND the foreground pin sharp. Focussing 1\/3 of the way into a scene if often recommended, or using a &#8220;hyperfocal&#8221; calculator app on your phone can give you the best focus distance for a given aperture and focal length.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking The Guesswork Out &#8211; Use\u00a0Focus Stacking<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than struggle to work out the best F-Stop and where to focus, we can create a &#8220;focus stack. This is where you take identical photos, but move the focus through the photo.<\/p>\n<p>In our example from Ribblesdale, we focussed on the tree in one photo, and the bottom right rocks on the second image.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to do this on a CANON (and most other brands) is to use LIVE VIEW where you can move your focus box around on screen with cursor keys.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put the focus box on the foreground, take a shot.<\/li>\n<li>Put the focus box on the middle ground, take a shot.<\/li>\n<li>Put the focus box on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/creating-depth-understanding-the-importance-of-foreground-middleground-and-background\/\">background\u00a0ground<\/a>, take a shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can take 2 or more &#8211; though with smaller apertures (F11 or F16) and wide angled lenses (10-28mm say), the depth of field rarely needs more than 2 shots.<\/p>\n<h2>The Photos<\/h2>\n<p>These are the 2 photos &#8211; they&#8217;ve both been processed identically in Lightroom and exported as large files &#8211; ready for merging in PHOTOSHOP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twentytwenty\" class=\"twentytwenty-container\" style=\"display: none; max-width: 100%; width: 1000px; height: 667px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/154-ribblesdale-yorkshire-landscape.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/153-ribblesdale-yorkshire-landscape.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<h1>How To Stack<\/h1>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly easy using PHOTOSHOP &#8211; there is a feature where you create a &#8220;stack&#8221;, then you merge the stack &#8211; and it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little video to show how it all works:-<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PHOTOSHOP TIPS - A focus stacked landscape\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PrZhhXVnyPg?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><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus Stacking in Landscape Photos If you like to get everything pin sharp in your landscapes, Focus Stacking\u00a0is for you. If you shoot low with foregrounds which are very close to the lens, then it can be hard to get the background AND the foreground pin sharp. 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