Thank you for the disclosure. I wonder if the perceived sharpness would increase in the stacked image as opposed to the single image with shallow DOF?
I like to paint focus by stacking. Too much shallow depth of field does not do it for me. I like lots of bokeh, but with a very solid area or two of focus. In this image, it's mostly focus, but done very gradually. This image has 220 layers, for example. But many have just a few layers,each accenting points in the mage I want in focus, but perhaps at a higher f/stop.
