Focus stacking is a photographic technique in which multiple exposures are taken of a subject, with the focus distance set to different lengths. These images are then composited together to create a ...

The Novoflex Stackpro 1 merges a bellows and focus rail to fight the artifacts common with focus stacking ...

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Playing around with close-up photography is a lot of fun, especially once you have invested in a dedicated macro lens for your camera. However, macro lenses may not be able to give you as much depth ...

Macro photography is the art of taking photos of things very close up, and ideally at great detail. Unfortunately cameras have poor depth of field at close ranges, so to get around this, many use ...

I’ve done my fair share of focus stacking in my time. Not only is it a laborious process, but you’re never quite sure you’ve got it right until you reach the editing stage, at which point, it’s too ...

For 100+ years, any given photo had a single prime focal point. But the results of this week’s Shooting Challenge combine multiple points of focus to create images never seen before. Before you read ...

Depth of field is a key principle to photography, a combination of factors and physics that determine how much any given photo is in focus. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want to to break the ...

One day you’ll be able to change almost any aspect of a photo after it’s taken. A technique called computational photography, for example, promises to let you change the focus and the depth of field ...

Owners of Panasonic’s Lumix G7, GX8, and FZ300 1 cameras will get a little gift in the form of a free firmware update this morning. The update gives the cameras a new mode called “Post Focus,” which ...