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MASTERING FOCUS | A landscape photography tutorial



Nailing focus from front to back in landscape photography is so important. In this video I share some simple tips and photo examples to ensure you get it right in camera every time.

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37 responses to “MASTERING FOCUS | A landscape photography tutorial”

  1. Question, when looking back at photos I've taken, I notice I get noice in pictures, I usually like to take photos on 2.8, 350 and iso 100. Depending on lighting situation. But alot of my photos get noise

  8. Great video. Front to back sharpness is something that I struggle with. Now got an X-T3 and use the focus peaking facility BUT I’d like to be able to get results myself. I really should go out and just experiment. One method I’ve used is – double the distance, ie. if the clearest thing to you that must be in focus is say 4ft away, then focus at 8ft and everything from 4ft to infinity should be acceptably sharp.

  9. Your content is extremely helpful! Great tutorials, instruction, and samples. I love your work, and how you capture a scene. It has always been my understanding (so I've heard) that apertures of f5/f6 really isn't that deep, and it's preferred to stick with f11(+) in order to get most of a scene in focus. But your examples stated that with ~f5.6, you can still get infinity into focus…? I'm seeking clarification please…

    The longer/larger the focal length, the more "shallow/narrow" the depth of field will be. So, if I use a shorter focal length, that means that there's a larger depth of field where more can be in focus. Furthermore, if I'm using a shorter focal length, I can technically use a lower aperture number and still get most in focus; but if I use a longer focal length, I will have to use a larger aperture number to achieve similar results with more being in focus. Am I understanding that correctly?

    So in your example of using f5.6: is that possible because you're using a 20mm focal length? But let's say you jump out to 85mm, would you then have to possibly jump to f8/f11 to get similar results? Is this correct, or am I misunderstanding something? Thanks for your help.

  10. Very useful video, Nigel. If you allow me a suggestion, every time that you mention the settings of your camera for a specific photo, it would be very nice if you could show them on screen as well. That's because we're paying attention to the explanation and when you mention the settings of the camera/lenses, we (at least I do) kind of pause to think about those settings, but then you're already ahead in the explanation. Thanks!

  11. Question…I use a Canon 50D with an APS sensor. Suppose I'm using a 16mm lens (APS equivalence ~= 26mm). If I want to compute my hyperfocal distance, do I use the "native" focal length (16mm) or the APS equivalent (26mm)??

  19. Very good video. I see you use xt2 and xt3 mostly. Have you used them for night long exposure photos? Do they perform ok in low light situations? How do you deal with the noise level? Thank you very much.

  29. Very useful. This is a critical topic that seems to be presented much less than many others. I would like to hear more about how you make aesthetic decisions about selective focus in different situations. Sometimes deciding what the "star" of the image is can be challenging.

  31. Nigel, great video but one question. I understand that DoF is also affected by subject distance. Shallower on a close subject and deeper on a distant one. So if you focus on a near rock (behind HFD) with f/8, how can everything in the distance be in focus?

  37. Very helpful video, thanks for that. Small detail (although I know it's an 'old' video) It would be good to have the camera settings written next to photos, it's easier to visualise it. But maybe that's just me. 🙂 other than that, I'll take the info into account next time.

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