Check off the option “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images”, especially if you didn’t use a tripod. In the pop-up window, set it to use Files and then with the Browse button choose the set of photos you took. You can do this by going to Menu > File > Scripts > Load Files into Stacks. The first thing you need to do is open them all into the same file in Photoshop.
Okay once you’re back at home base, download your photos to the computer.
The more photos you take the better so that Photoshop will have enough information to form your final image.Adjust the focus manually and in order (like from closest to farthest) so that you don’t lose track and have a shot where every area of the photo wasn’t sharp at some point during the shooting.For best results in the post-production, it’s better to have good material to work with so I recommend using a tripod so that the framing is exactly the same in each image.Everything else needs to remain the same, this means the same framing and settings and you ONLY adjust your focus in each shot.Ī few tricks for shooting images for focus stacking So basically what you need to do is shoot the image with different parts in focus. You need to prepare several photos that you’ll stack together in order to create one fully focused image. While this is a post-production process, you need to consider and get it at the shooting stage as it’s not something you can achieve by fixing your photo later. This is where Photoshop comes in, when you need to achieve an impossible or seemingly infinite depth of field. How broad this space or distance is can be determined by different factors: the aperture, the focal length of your lens and the physical distance between the camera and the subject.Įven if you have these three factors to move around in order to expand your depth of field, there are certain conditions that just won’t allow you to get as much DoF as you need.
It covers the space in front of and behind the focal plane, in other words where you put your focus. However, there is a post-production way around it, stay with me and I’ll show you how to do focus stacking!ĭepth of field, commonly referred to as DoF, refers to the distance between the first and last object that appears in focus or sharp within an image. So it seems that doesn’t matter if you go big or small you always have to make compromises regarding the depth of field. This can also happen when you want to shoot a landscape and you want to include an element close to you but you end up with a blurry background. Whenever you do macro or close-up photography you usually have to choose very carefully what you want to keep in focus.
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