![]() So, back to that crop, we'll go to 4 x 5 portrait. And, we're gonna try and straighten that out before we go into our stacking software. So, as you can see, before I even crop from 1 to 2 to 3, these photos are not perfectly the same. I'm doing everything I can to stay perfectly still, but inevitably, there's some movement. So as I'm adjusting my focus in or out, I'm moving ever so slightly. So we'll crop it to a 4 x 5 ratio, and we're gonna crop vertically, and make sure you leave a little bit of area above and below the subject because I shot this handheld, and we need to compensate for my movement. So I'm gonna pick the third shot because that's the closest to the result that I want, and the first thing I'm going to do is crop. We're gonna go in and develop our photos, and we can pick any one. So, the first step is going to be to help that out. Stacking software, whether it's Photoshop or something else, have the ability to auto-align your layers and auto-align areas, but it's even better if we can help it out. So, the first thing that I like to do when I'm preparing photos for a stack is set myself up for success. ![]() But I want to keep this nice soft background around the subject, and because we have these three overlapping focus areas, we can merge these together in post and create a stack that's all in focus the way we want it. And what I want is the front of the eyes, the face, the back of the eyes, all in focus. ![]() The third photo has the front of the eyes in focus, but now the back of the eyes are out of focus. The focus is a little bit closer to me, but not the front of the eyes, also a miss. Next, we almost have the front of the eyes in focus. So here, Photo 1, the front of the eyes are not in focus. None of these photos are ideal on their own, but when we stack them together, we're gonna get a really. These photos were intentionally shot, focusing on different areas of my subject, and you'll see what I mean in just a second. I've already pre-selected three photos to work with my stack. So, the first thing we need to do is bring some photos into Lightroom. This allows us to create results that aren't always possible with a single shot in-camera. What we're looking to achieve is something like this where everything that we want in focus is in focus, and everything that we don't want in focus is out of focus. We can do that with Photoshop or we can do that with software that's dedicated to focus stacking like Zerene Stacker or Helicon Focus. So, we've already talked about focus stacking in-camera with Olympus's in-camera focus stacking, but we can also stack photos after we shoot on the computer, and we have a couple of options to do that. Next up, we're gonna do some focus stacking.
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