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Focus stack processing

Focus stack processing

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Focus stack processing

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- [Instructor] Last week on "The Practicing Photographer," you saw me take this picture of a flower. I had a Fuji XT5 with a hundred millimeter macro lens on it, and I took this picture. And as you would expect with macro distances, I've got a depth of field problem. This is out of focus. This stuff's out of focus. That's not always going to be a problem. Sometimes a flower looks nice with shallow depth of field. In this case, I wanted the whole thing in focus though. And even at F16, I was unable to get that. And so last week you saw me use the focus bracketing feature on that Fuji XT5 to shoot a series of about 80 images each focused to a different point along the flower's depth with the idea that I would take that stack of images and merge them. And that's what we're going to look at this week on "The Practicing Photographer." Photoshop has a focus stacking merging feature built into it, and I used that to merge my…

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