“the reason I’ve shot subjects with fore-aft separation is to make it clearer what is and isn’t in focus”
Considering what I previously said, what’s left is a function of aperture setting and sensor size, not AF performance.
“The camera does record which AF point was used in the file’s EXIF, so I may be able to check if you want to know, for any given image…”
That’s not a practical or feasible thing to do and not something I would ask or expect you to do. What would be practical and feasible, for the reasons you said you took the pictures, and otherwise, is what I suggested, subjects at different distances with subject matter that is essentially flat in distance to each other.
Just offering some constructive criticism. You have to understand that you are producing a product for others. A chef that says he’s OK with some crab shell in a crab dish doesn’t mean most people are willing to eat such a thing. I saw that on Chopped. And yes, that chef got chopped, and rightly so.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.