Below is yet another shot of a Bird of Paradise flower from the plant in our backyard.
This one was taken using a Sony NEX-7 with Sigma 105mm macro lens at f/5, ISO 400, 1/400sec. The NEX-7 was set in a continuous shooting mode which takes ten frames per second until the buffer fills up.
I manually focused on the leading edge of the flower, then pressed and held the shutter release while pushing the camera towards the flower. For this particular shot, this provided me with twelve frames, each of which had a segment of the image in focus. I used Photoshop’s focus stacking tool to blend the various in-focus pieces from each image into one (more or less sharp) image. If you look closely, you can see problems with it, but it worked better than I expected.
