In yesterday’s post, what you saw was an example of using hyperfocal distance to my advantage. Go ahead and read the wikipedia article. I’ll wait.
Now, why do we care? If you can grasp this concept, then it’ll drastically improve the depth of your landscape images.
What does this mean to us when shooting? (more, after the jump) Click to continue »
To get a wide depth of field in a shot like the one below, I aim for a nearby object (not too close), and focus there. Then I minimize the f/stop. In this case, I was not using a tripod, so I had to be careful if I wanted to keep things sharp. In the end, I had to go much larger in f/stop than I would normally like, and also had to bump up my ISO.
A pond in Hoonah
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