SHOOT SUPER-SHARP CLOSE-UPS
Photography week|March 07, 2024
Can't get everything in focus? Adam Waring shows you how to focus-stack images for incredible front-to-back sharpness
SHOOT SUPER-SHARP CLOSE-UPS

A macro lens enables you to focus extremely close to a subject so that it's reproduced at life-size on the camera sensor, opening up a world of incredible detail that's impossible to see with the naked eye. The drawback is that at such close focusing distances depth of field becomes extremely shallow, and will be only a matter of millimetres even if you stop down to a narrow aperture - so all that detail is lost from all but a very narrow band of sharp focus.

The solution is focus stacking. Take a series of shots, each at a slightly different focus distance, then combine the images to include the sharpest elements from each shot. It sounds complicated, but all the hard work is easily done in software, and it's a largely automated process.

You simply focus on the closest part of the image, take a shot, then twist the focus ring a tiny bit and take another shot, repeating the process until the most distant part of your subject is in focus. Some new cameras make things even easier with 'focus shift' shooting modes which automatically takes a series of shots each at a slightly different plane of focus.

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