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A slight fall-off in depth of field that wasn’t very noticeable with a 16- or 20-megapixel camera becomes glaringly obvious with a 36- or 42-megapixel camera. Using high-resolution cameras the last couple of years has only made it more difficult to get everything in focus. Again I used focus stacking for this image. Poppies and lupines in dapples light, Merced River Canyon. But even with wide-angle lenses it’s sometimes difficult to get everything in focus with one frame, because I’m getting really close to the foreground flowers, so there’s a tremendous amount of depth.

Even with careful focusing and f/22 it’s impossible to get everything in focus with a long lens raking across a field of flowers like that.

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I’m frequently picking out a particularly dense patch of flowers, and using a telephoto lens to emphasize patterns and visually compress the space, making the flowers look closer together. It’s just difficult to get everything in focus with one frame when photographing wildflowers. I don’t need focus stacking often in other seasons, but in spring I use this technique all the time. And this is very common for me when photographing wildflowers. I’ve included a couple of my favorite images from that day here.Īs I was processing the images later, it occurred to me that all of them required focus stacking.

Claudia and I spent the afternoon up there on Wednesday, and had a great time. No big swaths of poppies, but smaller patches, and some of those patches are mixed with other flowers, which always makes things more interesting. There’s been a secondary poppy bloom in the eastern end of the Merced River Canyon near El Portal. It’s spring, which means it’s wildflower season, and focus-stacking season. A focus-stacked blend of four different frames. Poppies, lupines, goldfields, and tri-colored gilia, Merced River Canyon, Wednesday afternoon.

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