How I Focus Stack MANUALLY for Incredibly SHARP Landscape Photos

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In this week’s episode, we discuss how I focus stack manually for incredibly sharp landscape photos. In my video last month all about Auto Focus Stacking I received many questions in regards to Manual Focus Stacking and what you should in the event that things are moving throughout your scene. This is a very common situation especially in landscape photography where it’s not unusual to have things like clouds, leaves, or water moving throughout your composition. In situations such as this Photoshop often has issues accurately determining which areas of an image to use and which areas that shouldn’t be used.

In this video, I review how I manual focus stack my landscape photos when Photoshop requires a bit of extra assistance. If you’re not familiar with what focus stacking is, it’s the process of taking a series of images that are each focused at different areas of your composition. Then during your post processing workflow you blend the images together only using the areas of greatest focus thus creating a final photo that's perfectly sharp throughout the entire image. Now I understand that blending photos can be a bit intimidating, but once you try this technique out a couple times I think you'll be surprised just how easy this actually is.

So the next time you encounter a composition that requires focus stacking and also has things moving throughout your scene, I hope the information in this video helps you feel more comfortable attempting to manual focus stack your landscape photo.

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Auto Focus Stacking Video:
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