Here's a technique I wanted to show anyone who's interested. It's called focus stacking. And involves taking a series of images and then combining them, in this case using Photoshop, to create a seamless single image, which is in focus from edge to edge. Managing depth of field has always been a problem in macro photography. Depth of field is smaller, shallower, for objects nearer the camera. So if a small object fills the frame, it is often so close that its entire depth cannot be in focus at once. Firstly, I position the coin at an oblique angle to my lens. I then shoot images and sequence while focusing further down the axis of the coin. The images are then imported to Photoshop and assembled using the photo merge command and then select all the layers and auto blend them in the edit menu. This creates a layered file where all the images are combined. Photoshop then cleverly assembles the images with all but the sharp portions of the photographs masked off. The resulting large file can then be flattened and cropped to save storage space. As you can see, the resulting image is sharp from edge to edge and really shows off the depth and beauty of this spectacular coin. I hope this tutorial was helpful and please check back with a blog for more articles and thank you for watching.