A Couple More Examples Of Focus Bracketing

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On Wednesday, I posted an explanation of Olympus' implementation of both Focus Bracketing and  Focus Stacking with an image as an example.  If you are interested you can read about those two really versatile features here.

From that same two hour afternoon time frame, I have a three more images I made that I thought I would share.

Focus bracketing, if understood, can be very beneficial and help you whether you are imaging flower blossoms at 1:1 or the grand landscape where you want everything from your feet to infinity in sharp focus.  In years past, we had two choices.  First, we could stop down the lens to its smallest aperture to obtain maximum depth of field along with focusing at the lens' hyperfocal distance, but that resulted in images that suffered from diffraction softening.  The other option, in this digital world, was to manually focus several images at different distances, then try to combine them, again manually, in software.  My experience was the second method, for me, was hit and miss at best.  I'm very pleased to have Olympus and now Fujifilm as well, provide this type of feature for us now.

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I would encourage you to try them.  Its not difficult and, in the end, you improve your photographic skills.

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