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Focus stacking and a realistic viewpoint can help improve your model railroad photography By Lee Marsh
Once your layout has reached a point where it looks like a model of a railroad instead of track nailed to a piece of wood, if you’re like me, you start thinking about taking photos of your work. This happened to me about the time I painted my hardshell terrain and added colorful ground cover. I struggled to produce quality photos. When we view settings in the real world, our eyes automatically focus on whatever subject
we are observing, be it far or near. The muscles in our eyes control the shape of the lens rendering a
subject in focus. This happens imperceptibly quickly as we shift our view from far to near or vice versa.
Consequently, we perceive the world as in-focus with “infinite” depth of field, which is the area of a
photo that is in focus. Of course, some of us need corrective lenses to achieve this, but with proper
