Errm, no if i'm not wrong its at f11 and above. But i think its due to the stacking of a few images that resulted in the softness. I took serveral exposures and stacked them up to achieve it. I muz say its not wat night86mare expectations are. Hahaha, his work too pro le.
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no one pro here, we are all learning.
anyways, back to the picture, i don't think depth of field or sharpness was an immediate issue here, in fact the clouds are amazing, i like how the colours have been done here, and the movement adds quite some drama (btw, i think the perceived "softness" is due to movement between frames - clouds may have differentiations but they are never "hard" or "sharp" per se, if i could see the outline of a cloud i'd be very shocked).
what spoils it for me is the choice to put an overwhelming amount of foreground which is messy at the bottom - i know there is a limiting factor by your location, but unless time was a constraint, i.e. you got there late, you should move away from this location, the sprawling mass which "grows" to the right is quite disorientating. a normal cliched landmass/treeline which is straight and uniform would be better.
other than that i think it is pretty good. i find such beautiful clouds sometimes very hard to capture, if they have no harmony with whatever foreground the place has to offer, i'm sure you had a hard time too.
oh, and on another note, i'm not sure if you've sharpened your image or it is due to resizing, but that tree line around the right is
too sharp. looks a tad unnatural.
btw, what is the stacking for? i don't understand. if you wanted nice saturated colors you can do it via the channel mixer/saturation tool.. don't need to stack it to get a "multiply" effect.