Watch Poetry #2

Time for another "watch poetry" blip and yes I did need to stack five separate images to get pretty much all of the brand logo on the clasp of this bracelet sharp. Mmmm I probably should have used a sixth but hey ... I am far too lazy to do it all again.

I have seen people discussing the virtues of FS and in particular the respective virtues of shallow as opposed to long depth of field.  For my own two cents worth, the amount of dof you need is an artistic decision arising from personal taste and the tyrannies of physics. What you do will depend on so many things. It could be argued that pictures (especially macro ones) which feature every last little thing in focus are necessarily a bit flat and featureless. But it IS very handy to be able to control your depth of field as required rather than be a slave to what lenses, apertures, proximity and lighting serve up to you by default at the moment in question.

For example, in the picture above it didn't matter what aperture I chose. I was just too close. Nothing could render the whole logo in focus without help although if I'd run to (say) f16, I might only have needed perhaps 2 or 3 stacked images. But then I might not have been able to render the remainder of the image (away from the logo) quite so softly.