Landscape photography often asks one frame to do too much. A rock may sit inches from the lens, a river may curve through the middle of the scene, and distant mountains may stretch toward the horizon. Even with a carefully…
How Many Photos Do You Need for Focus Stacking
One of the first questions photographers ask after learning about focus stacking is surprisingly simple: How many photos do I actually need? Should you take three? Ten? Twenty? Fifty? One photographer may combine five frames to photograph a flower, while…
What Is Focus Bracketing on a Camera
You are exploring your camera menu and notice a setting called Focus Bracketing. Your camera may call it Focus Shift Shooting, Focus BKT, or something similar. Either way, the name can make the feature sound far more complicated than it…
How to Use Focus Stacking for Macro Photography
Move close enough to a flower, insect, mushroom, water droplet, or textured object, and something surprising happens to the depth of field. It almost disappears. You may carefully focus on the center of a flower only to discover that the…
Focus Bracketing vs Focus Stacking: What’s the Difference
Focus bracketing and focus stacking are often discussed as though they are two names for the same photography technique. They are closely connected, but not the same. Focus bracketing is the process of capturing a series of photographs at different…
