Shirlm - Theme No1 - DOF

Here's my take on dof, something experiment with a lot for my flower shots.
I have a spray of orchids & wanted all the flowers in focus.

At F16 the wall behind was also in focus, lack of space meant I could not move the flowers further from the bg.
orchid_0666 , on Flickr

At F2.8 the wall was smooth but the back flowers were out of focus.
orchid_0667 [/url], on Flickr

I took 3 shots focusing on different parts of the spray, one on the front most flower, one on the bud, and 1 on the back flower. I used focus stacking in CS6 and combined these 3 shots to get sharp focus on the flowers but keeping a smooth bg.
orchid_0667-9 [/url], on Flickr

Nice finished shot and good info on how you got it.

Thanks for these, Shirlm. Beautifully done.

Excellent addition to the theme.

Clever demo and nice shots - good stuff, thank you.

I only tried this once, but need to do more. Thank you for the excellent examples

1st class. I never have much luck with focus stacking but your info has given me the incentive to have another go at this. I agree with what has already been said excellent shots with good info

Thanks for demonstration, interesting.

Thanks all, pleased you found it interesting.
I have found that 2 or 3 images at most work the best.
For those who really want to get involved in stacking I've seen excellent results from Zerene software.