Focus Stacking

If you're looking for absolute sharpness from the foreground to the background, depth-of-field might not be enough, so the solution is to take a series of images at different focus settings and combine them in post-production. It's called focus stacking and is very popular with natural landscape photographers and macro workers. 

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