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Five Focus Stacking Mistakes That Are Quietly Killing Your Sharpness
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from doing everything right on location, hauling gear to a pre-dawn ridgeline, nailing your composition, getting home, and watching Photoshop turn your carefully captured focus stack into a blurry, misaligned mess. I’ve been shooting landscapes full-time for two decades now, and focus stacking is one of those techniques that looks deceptively simple until it quietly betrays you at the worst possible moment. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out that the problem wasn’t the blending software.