Macro focus stacking methods EXPLAINED (Best tips I use for sharp shots) 

Your tips are truly golden! Thank you Andrew. I really like your videos.

The focus stack setting on the R5 works awesome. You still have to be careful that you focus just a touch into the foreground for the starting point. Sometimes it’s hard with round subjects to judge this. Great channel it’s a pleasure to view. Thank you.

Thanks Andrew. That was a great summary.

That is awesome. Keep up the good work, always nice watching.

Thank you Andrew I really enjoyed that vid. it was very informative I am just starting in my macro journey. thanks

Thank you Andrew, very useful 👍

This video is very informative, easy to understand, and quick. Thank you. 👍🙂

Another good video Andrew

you deserve more subscribers! my first time here and this video is fantastic!

For home/studio photography, I've found a focus bracketing rail to be really useful. A bit tedious to adjust, take photo, adjust, take photo etc but it does the job!

Some really useful tips here. Also, focus via a focus rail rather than focusing the lens itself etc.

Great video Andrew :)

Great and easy-to-understand video of a sometimes complicated technique.

Very interesting Andrew ! I have doing doing photography for about 10 years now . I have gone from a Rebel 3TI ,to a 6D and now the EOS R . I have purchased The RF 100mm F2.8 macro. I am trying to learn Macro photography. I noticed something that you said about focus stacking reminded me of conventual Photography . In conventual photography , you can shoot wildlife, sports, portraits, landscape ,commercial, product photography and on and on. Having said all that , could we said that in the world of macro , you could break macro into different types of macro ? In my conventual photography ,I shoot static subjects Landscape, architecture, automobiles etc. I believe one could drive themselves crazy trying to shoot all types of macro photography.

The handheld method is only possible with natural light or continuous light I presume? Thanks for the video Andrew!

I like using a focusing rail were convenient but one query , does it matter if the sharp images are not in sequence ? You move back and forward, just a tad. ? Thank you either way Andrew always look forward to you videos.

My Nikon Z7ii has focus shift and works well, I have that set as an option on the Information Menu so a simple press of a button and you're in. You can of course go through the menu. Great video by the way

Great to the point tutorial with different techniques. I am about to get a Focusing Rail for focus stacking. What is your opinion? But at the same time I wonder that any movement to forward or backward on Rail would change the composition and would ruin the image. Am I right? My focusing rail is on the mail. Thanks.

CamRanger I use for my older cameras.

My olympus has focusstacking in camera. So I havenot this “problem”

I have a z6 II and the 105mm macro lens. My camera has focus stacking in it. What I don't understand yet is how to know how far apart I should set the increments and how many pictures I should take. If I set it for more pictures than I need for the distance it's taking the pictures for, it will stop when it gets to that point. I know a lot of it depends on the distance to the subject whether it's at 1:1 ratio and also the depth of field. I think what I need to do is set up a ruler on a table and focus at the front and set a common aperture and start trying different stacking settings to see what each increment will do. That way I'll know how far apart to set it for different apertures. Does that make any sense?

would you do it with a Manuel lens too?

I've tried handheld focus stacking before but find that my photos differ far too much between shots, meaning the end result just doesn't work. I'd love to watch a tutorial on this (assuming you haven't already made one)

Thank you for this. I have an R5 as well. Am I correct that the auto stacking feature on the R5 automatically shoots the stack using electronic shutter? So, no flash if you use this feature?

how many frames per second is neccessary or do you consider burst mode? I have a sony A1 so I can do 30 fps

Have a good day from productions ideas

Hi Andrew - do you know if there is a way to allocate the "start focus shift shooting" to a custom function button. I find if I manually focus in the field then its all but impossible to go into the menus to start the focus shift shoot without losing that focus point. Its frustrating.

A question… Focus shift in camera, can you decide the depht of focus to get those nice creammy background or you can just get all picture sharp?

I have issues with focus breathing. Do u ? Is there a specific camera/lens pair i should use to avoid focus breathing ?

Is focus stacking the same as focus bracketing

What software are you people using to stack the photos?

I remember being excited to see my camera had a focus-stacking mode built-in, but sadly it only produces jpegs.

This is a great video but why don’t you explain how you put the photos together? Once you’ve done the focus? Stack, it’s kinda like showing us all the ingredients of a cake but not actually showing us how to bake the cake, how do you actually put the photos together, like what software do you use? How do you do that later? That’s what I was really interested to know.

There are better options than the Macallan 15…😀

My Canon 90D offers bracketing, but it's a pity that Canon does not automate the calculation of the number of steps needed and forces me to do guesswork. My Fuji XS-10 in comparison does automate everything, you simply tell it the nearest and farthest focus points and off it goes. Fuji seems to better understand that digital cameras are some kind of computers nowadays. I can do manual calculations for the 90D with the help of DOF calculating apps, but its tedious, sigh. Shame on you, Canon.

sorry you are so fast in jour explanation and sorry y cane volling you, and i believe its so big your explanation ,Can you try speake a little bit slower for the Belgium people because i think its so interresant