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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 760275" data-attributes="member: 13196">If you have a smart phone, please consider downloading a Depth of Field app. The one I use is a paid app (Simple DoF), but there are decent free ones. Take a look at these 2 charts. Both are based on the Nikon D7100 at the 11&quot; distance you mentioned being the closest you can focus. The difference is the first one shows the Depth of Field based on the aperture of f/5.6. What's in focus is as [USER=16783]@wev[/USER] mentioned - a sliver of only 0.06&quot; will be in focus. Then compare it with the second example based on using f/16. Even here your Depth of Field is only 0.16&quot;. That isn't nearly enough to make any flower be in focus. Some members use focus stacking - that's where you place the focus point close to the front of your subject, take a pic, then move the focus point further back. Then a second image is taken. This keeps going until there are multiple images with different parts of the subject in focus. Then all the images are combined in Photoshop and merged into one. I haven't done it myself, but there are several people here who would be able to give you pointers if you are interested. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />[ATTACH=full]357302[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]357303[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 760275, member: 13196"] If you have a smart phone, please consider downloading a Depth of Field app. The one I use is a paid app (Simple DoF), but there are decent free ones. Take a look at these 2 charts. Both are based on the Nikon D7100 at the 11" distance you mentioned being the closest you can focus. The difference is the first one shows the Depth of Field based on the aperture of f/5.6. What's in focus is as [USER=16783]@wev[/USER] mentioned - a sliver of only 0.06" will be in focus. Then compare it with the second example based on using f/16. Even here your Depth of Field is only 0.16". That isn't nearly enough to make any flower be in focus. Some members use focus stacking - that's where you place the focus point close to the front of your subject, take a pic, then move the focus point further back. Then a second image is taken. This keeps going until there are multiple images with different parts of the subject in focus. Then all the images are combined in Photoshop and merged into one. I haven't done it myself, but there are several people here who would be able to give you pointers if you are interested. :) [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]357302._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]357303._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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