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Near lake Saiko.
Saiko Iyashi-no-Sato Nemba Traditional Japanese Village
I get the impression you've let your camera set its focus on the close vegetation framing the shot, rather than the mountain. Thus the mountain is "soft" and the leaves "sharp". While that might be deliberate, if it isn't, you might want to investigate focus modes on your camera.
Is this one more to your liking?
Single spot focus is what I use. For this one, sadly, I couldn't get both in focus. (f/32 is all my lens got)
I guess that calls for focus stacking but I haven't looked into that yet.
Edit Oof, I over sharpened the bottom part. ๐ Shouldn't edit stuff on the tablet in the car.
Pro here. It's fine if everything isn't in focus but then you should commit. Your framing and composition is good here, but indeed the slightly soft mount Fuji is a shame. The "classic" here would've been to open up the aperture, focus on the mountain and let the leaves go blurry. It could've been interesting to reverse the trend and focus on the leaves instead, there's a million pictures of mount Fuji so having it be recognizable in the background but taking a backseat to the leaves could've been interesting. Finally, you could've taken two pictures and stack the focus as you've said, in this case you wouldn't even need to do proper focus stacking, just two photos and a mask in PS.
Yes, that is far more to my taste (but then, everyone's taste differs): I like a frame of fuzzy around a sharp subject.
I've never seriously tried focus stacking, but I'd suspect it might be a challenge with this, no matter what you had - and what's worse, might look a bit fake!
Today I learned that 'ๅฑฑ' is pronounced as either 'san' or 'yama' depending on historical Chinese or Japanese pronunciation
Absolutely stunning! Great job ๐