5 Ways I Approach Focusing for Landscape Photography
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2020
- How to focus and get sharp images with your landscape photography is a question I asked myslef a lot when I first started. In this video I go over 5 different ways in which I apprach a scene when deciding how best to focus.
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At 5:00, "Bits are soft in the foreground, bits are soft in the background, no one cares, no one cares." Love it, thanks for keeping it real.
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I agree!
You still inspiring people even in the lockdown situation. Amazing photographer!!!
Like the 60's style haircut. It reminds me of the British Invasion Era of the Beatles. 😆👍🎵🎶🎹
@Phil Weatherley Love your wit Phyllis.
Brilliant... Thank you
Double-distance focusing; find the closet point in the image you want in focus and double that distance, relative to your camera position, for a focus point. Easier, faster and arguably more accurate than hyper-focal/i/3 in focusing.
THANK YOU! I'm so glad that other people are taking the same approach as I have been afraid to divulge due to the obsessed nature of many "serious" landscape photographers. But, honestly, if the extreme corners or foreground of your images aren't perfect, that's usually a visual HELP, not a hindrance! Leading the viewer's eye is one of the most powerful tools that a photographer has, and it can be ruined by over-thinking focus technique, and needlessly focus stacking or making sure the foreground/corners are tack sharp, when the main subject is in the central zone of the image...
Also, to anyone who thinks diffraction isn't a concern: You might as well trade your 40-60 megapixel sensor in for a 12-24 megapixel sensor, if you shoot at f/22. You're wasting all your technique for tripod stability etc, not to mention the money you spent on your camera, if you don't perform a very careful test to determine where diffraction comes into play for your particular setup, and draw your own line in the sand at whatever aperture you deem to be the limit of acceptability.
Good luck! Thanks for sharing, Thomas, I can't wait to see your next "real" adventure!!!
Thank you so much for telling everyone about the center column. Lots of great advice, well done!
Well as far as I'm concerned this IS the definitive guide on focusing landscapes! Thank you as always Thomas. This just makes me look forward to getting back out there even more. Stay safe and be well :)
Proper helpful for a starter like me.
Great video. You’ve answered all the questions I wanted to know about focusing in landscape. Many thanks
good common sense advice. Given the high number of pixels my camera has (Sony A7R iii) another "trick" I employ sometimes when I cannot focus stack but need a deeper depth of focus is to simply shoot the scene wider than I need (i.e. 20mm when 24mm is the framing I want). As we all know, the wider the shot, the deeper the focus range is. Then I just crop in post and still have a very large image.
Haven't enjoyed a vlog as much in a long time, welcome back. Hitting a subject which everyone struggles with, simplifying the knowledge and making it understandable in your own style. And i must say you yourself look a lot brighter and cheerful. 😁😁🏴
Thank you Thomas - always pick up great tips watching your videos.
Hands down the best vid on landscape focusing. Great video Thomas! 👍
Great video Thomas. Great overview, short and to the point! Real Worth the time watching it! Thanks
One of the best quick summaries I’ve every seen. I’m saving and may put these ideas on a 3x5 card. Thanks
Struggled with focusing for years! You've answered all my issues in 10 mins.... cheers Thomas.
This is now my favourite video on this subject! Brilliant, thank you!
Lots of fantastic points in this one. Thanks!
Straight forward, no fluff. Thank you.
Thanks Thomas, so clearly and succinctly explained. I has put a lot of thought into the right perspective.
You nailed this! Whatever prep you did to produce this video, put it in a jar and use it again and again when you do tutorials. Really chilled, positive and clear - much appreciated.
Thomas: Very well done. Covered all the essentials and was very helpful. I follow you, Nigel, Simon, Mads and Mark Denney. Every time I watch I learn something or reinforce what I already knew. Thanks!!!
That lighting setup is looking great in this video! love whatever you have done
Always helpfull these kind of reminders
From someone who has really struggled with improving my landscape images. This is a video with such simple and easy advise that I already know if I follow and adapt your focus rules to my scenes I will improve for sure. Thanks Tom
Simple and concise, Thomas! Have been making a check on each item you mentioned. Focus stacking would be my next best thing to consider, instead of merging in hdr, photomatix. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your experiences!
Thomas thank you so much for your focusing tips. I am watching your videos backwards (from newest to oldest) and have been asking myself all this time “I wish Tom would tell us what he’s focusing on,” well here is the explanation I needed. Great content. Thank you
Good tips! I've been at this for a while now, but it's good to refresh these simple concepts. I usually focus at a 1/3 using f/8 or f/11.
Really good stuff, Thomas. Many questions answered.
Fab, as I don’t have photoshop I always focus to infinity even with close up foreground. And I agree if it’s slightly off it leads you into the scene. Never had a problem doing that.
Another great video with great advice. Thanks.
very helpful tips. thank you! certainly will help when i'm out in the field.
So helpful! Thank you for sharing.
Fab video, Tom! Thanks and I hope you and your wife are well and safe. Being locked down here in Atlanta is driving me bonkers, so your videos are a big relief!
Sean
Well put together a video, very helpful suggestions. You summarized the important aspects in clear, definitive terms. Thanks for posting this, Thomas!
Thanks Thomas! Very useful tips!
another awwwwwwsome video keep smiling
The moving sea in foreground tip was precious, thanks.
Always valuable tips from you Thomas you always inspire me, I can’t wait to get out with camera again 👍
These are great tips. Thanks so much for all your content..now to get out there and shoot, shoot, shoot.
awesome info in this video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I cant wait to apply some of these techniques.
Very straigtforward and interesting! Thank you so very much for this lesson!
I don´t think most ameteour photographers really comprehend the value of this video, thank you mate...
Thanks for another great video!
Finall, some practical stuff for the Everyman, fabulous
Davy Crokette came to mind 😆. Seriously excellent vid as always Thomas!
Thanks mate I’ve learned quite a lot of things from you today
Susinct. Accurate. Helpful. Compressive. Great job.
Thank you thank you thank you. I've learnt more from this video than i have in the last 30+ years of photography.
Great presentation, I learned a lot
Thanks!
Thanks a lot I enjoyed it.
Very much enjoyed this video. Took notes and decided your info is like a 'cheat sheet'. Easy to remember. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing these helpful focusing tips.
Thanks a lot for this video. I found it very useful and interesting for the different methods and for the tips.
Great video. Thanks so much
Thank you so much for your simple and down to earth honest conversation. wonderful :)
Wow, great video. Thanks for this!
Great video Thomas! I appreciate you
This is useful to a lot of people that started on digital. Thank you! People should look at old lenses with distance scales and depth of field indicators though
Thanks Thomas this was great!
This helped me a lot. Thank you.
Thanks Thomas, great tips as usual
love the help, a great tool to come back to. I think I'm going watch that bit about shapes a few more times. I love the idea, but it take a few for things to stick in my head, but great video Thomas.
Awesome information, thank you so much.
As a fairly new photographer these tips are awesome. Very easy to understand, thank you.
Great Video Thomas, good reminder of focusing principles Thanks Tony
Wow! A massage amount of great information. Thank you very much.
Thomas, another great post. I started watching you because I like nature, but I am learning and Want to try some of your techniques.
This is a nice quick guide...thank you!
Excellent, practical advice all around. I've used the focus to infinity technique since I saw your video of a few years ago where you put several focusing methods to the test and found that it worked best, or at least as well any of the more complicated methods you tried. It always works for me. I also recommend testing your lenses to determine which aperture produces the sharpest results. I found that all of my lenses (good but not "L" quality Canon lenses), start to suffer from diffraction above F11, so I never shoot beyond that unless I'm going for a starburst effect.
Thanks for sharing the video and your focus techniques Thomas cheers 👍🙏
This is very helpful! I’ve never understood the application of anything over f8 as it applies to landscapes. Now maybe I can get that beautiful image of Mt Rainier! Thankyou so much
Great video. Sums up the most things to know about focusing.
Thanks for the tips! Very informative.
Phew! Thanks Thomas. I picked up your 'focus on infinity' early on after I started getting into photography and it's served me well but I've also just picked up the same habits as you in other cases. Nice clear explanations. Could you do something similar on metering modes please. I tend to use spot metering most of the time from something I read but an equivalent explanation on that would be really useful. Thanks again.
Nice concise guide Thomas. Some of us older photographers can't trust our own eyes for focus like we used to. Using the spot focus during Live View is a Godsend in that case.
Thank you for the great helpful tips
Thanks for the tips, definitely been pointed in the right direction for shooting landscapes 👍
Thanks a lot! Whoever does landscape photography, he's an aperture guy!
Thanks Tom I used your this Focus method on my first time to Rocky Mountain Colorado trip and got pretty good images thanks you....
Nice video Tom, good to reaffirm that I'm focusing properly, basically I focus the same as yourself although I did wonder about the moving foreground scenarios and those images where there's no stand out subject like the forest image... I'm definitely with you on having the back or mid - back sharper than the front of the image if it's one or the other.
Thanks for some great tips Tom
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks Thomas very usefull video thanks to tha all information thank u
Brilliant video, lots of good tips here.
Great explanation
Excellent, highly useful episode, Tom.
Very good video, thank you so much!
Sometimes my camera is very close to the foreground, then focus to infinity will not work, even with f/16. What really helped me was a DoF app and then selecting a focus point that decreased my near limit to less than 1m or something and the far limit to infinity.
Best results with focus stacking though. But I don't want to take 3 pictures all the time and then spend more time to process the images in post. Focus stacking for me is just some sort of last resort.
And you are absolutely right about the kit lenses :-)
Great Video Tom!
Great tips and lots of great examples. 👍😎
Hi Thomas. Your tutorials are always very interesting and a pleasure to watch. I’ve got a photo shoot on this Sunday, Mundaring Weir in Western Australia. Landscape. Normally I use manual focus with maximum focus peaking, I light the scene up, usually on F11 to F16 maximum. I use a remote to focus & take the shot. Every photo shot to me is a learning curve. I mess up, learn, try again. I make the usual mistake of shooting in bright sky and I’m a slow learner and mess up by blowing out the highlights, using exposure comp. & find the bloody shadows are toooo black. One day I’ll get it all right. Stay safe Thomas. Thank you.
Nice, fast and nicely explained methods 👍🏻❤️
Thank you so much, Tom. Massively helpful. Didn’t know about lens diffraction, but explains what has gone wrong for me a few times. JoAnne
That was very helpful. Far less complicated than what others make focusing to be.
Nicely explained, will follow your technique in future. Thanks for sharing valuable knowledge.
These tips are really helpful. Cheers! 😁
A very concise and excellent video. Got some great tips for a subject that I have personally struggled with in the past. Thanks for sharing. 👍