A few learnings about focus stacking

Focus Stacking is a wonderful technique to increase depth of field, especially for macro-photography. However, it can be challenging.

Here are the few lessons I took from applying the technique to photographing arthropods and inanimate objects.

Approaches to focus stacking

Challenges

attempt to make a slice of time by combining multiple such slices

Magnification, going beyond 1x

Angle of view,

my way, ext tubes + standard lens specialized lens

Magnification and effective aperture

References and Further reading

Books ā†’ 2

Links to Keith Cā€™s