Focus Stacking with Helicon Focus
Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography. An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.
Depth of Field (DOF in short) plays a major role in photography.
Sometimes you want it less and sometimes more. Whatever may be the case, it is always important and its influence on a photograph can never be ignored. Let us start by looking at a few basics of DOF to get a deeper understanding of the subject. Optically speaking, when a lens is focussed at a particular distance, only those points at that focussed distance are in perfect focus. All these points which are at the same distance are called a “plane”.
Anything not on that plane (either before or after) is not in perfect focus. However, in practise, points that are
