Focus Stacking - A Basic Guide

Final Stacked Image
A number of years ago I did a lot of Macro Photography.  At that time I was using a Phase One DF+ camera with the 120mm Marco Phase One lens.  It was a great set up and using focus stacking in combination with this system yielded amazing images.
Recently I received a Sony 90mm Macro lens.  As with all macro lenses, you can do some great close up images but doing so means having a very shallow depth of field.  Luckily in today’s digital world there is a very easy way to get a deeper depth of field with a technique called focus stacking.
Focus stacking is like doing a panorama stitch but instead of blending images together on the sides we blend the images together by placing them on top of each other.  I’ll illustrate just how easy this is to do below.
Publishers Note:  Focusing stacking is a technique that has been around for a long time.  In leading workshops the discussion comes up a lot and I find there are many people who are aware of focus stacking but have neve...