This photo of actual sized coffee is a optical illusion. The camera can only keep the first inch or two of beans in focus, the rest will be blurry. The illusion is created by creating three different shots, all focused at beans furthur back in the pile, then edited in image editing software that is capable of seperate layers, and combining them.

Bkg.                middle                   top The unused parts of each layer is erased, and each layer is put on top of the original shot, flattened into one shot that appears to be in focus from front to back

Here, again is the first shot

And here is the finished version, combining 3 different layers. See the difference?

I hope this explains it all!!

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