Landscape photographers often shoot at smaller apertures to increase depth of field in their images. That said, I've found that the algorithm actually does a pretty good job of pattern matching photos that have been shot hand-held. One of the biggest mistakes that I made early on in my career as a landscape photographer is the misunderstanding of the depth-of-field & aperture relationship.

Because the bokeh in the background was created from an out-of-focus flame, it was different in every frame, creating what's called ghosting where the images don't perfectly line up. To correct this, you can manually choose which portions of each layer to include in the final shot, rather than using the automated option.

Anyway, today here I'm showing how to go from Lightroom to Photoshop with your focus-stacked images, and then I did Focus Stacking Software a step-by-step tutorial on how to have put them together for you (just the sharp parts, all combined into a single image) automatically, over on my daily blog today.

Stacking will add the foreground object in focus. So I use a focus stacking a fair bit for my landscape photography and find it useful for many situations. You may find that images with longer focal lengths may need a higher stack. This will take a little bit of time but the result will give you a merged image in the layers box on the right.

Such will likely remain so for a good while because communicating how much sharper large images can be with such a process is not something easily communicated on an Internet where most work must be considerably downsized due to monitor display limitations image security.