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focus stacking ... capture a series of photos each with a different distance in focus then in post processing synthesize a single photo from the portions of eac

focus stacking ... capture a series of photos each with a different distance in focus then in post processing synthesize a single photo from the portions of each which is most in focus ... heavily used for microscope image capture where depth of field is minute ... another is high dynamic imaging ( HDR ) which is a similar bracketing of several exposures each with a different shutter speed of each image captures maximum detail in a different exposure level ... if you wish to combine both of these tricks into a single output image where you use say a bracket of 4 exposures for the focus stacking and say 5 for the hdr then total necessary photos would be 4 * 5 meaning 20 separate photos

brudgers 5y ago
The "tilt" in tilt-shift (outside macro or microscopic photography) is a get it right in the camera hack for focus stacking...or focus stacking can be a kludge for tilt focus. For HDR in the landscape, holding a graduated neutral density filter in front of the lens is a run and gun hack. Or mount them in a holder if you're "using a friggin tripod." To me, the best hacks are getting it close in camera...I'd rather not be sitting at the computer managing twenty files so to speak. Sometimes of course it is unavoidable. Or