Extreme Depth Of Field

The image above was a simple shot of a tulip - but note the incredible depth of field - this was done through a three image blend with the focus changed between shots, then run through Helicon Focus, a programme which takes the sharp part of each image and blends them. Pretty amazing. Sometimes images need a bit of work where things overlap, in this case none was needed. Helicon provide layer masks in their professional version of the software with which to fix trickier blends. Images don't appear to need to be macro or microscope images (as illustrated on their site), I recently blended an old building, shot with a 200 mm. lens and depth of field not nearly enough to cover the three dimensional aspects of the building - but Helicon Focus did, and a lot more accurately and painlessly than I could have done (as originally intended) by hand using layers and masks.