snerkler
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This is not asking for advice, just interested in people's landscape techniques and why they choose to do it that way.
I know once upon a time most would shoot at the smallest aperture possible to get the max DOF, but more recent thinking has been to use a wider aperture to minimise diffraction, focussing at the hyper focal distance.
I personally use the latter, shooting at f8 on crop, and f5.6 on my M4/3. Apparently M4/3 suffer bad diffraction at apertures smaller than this, and at f5.6 they have the equivalent aperture of f8 on a crop anyway. I'm currently waiting for delivery of FF so will probably shoot at f10/11.
Earlier in the year I went on a landscape photography course and the guy was 'adamant' that you should still shoot at the smallest aperture possible (f22 in his case), and focus on the main subject of the frame (hadn't heard this before). For example, in this shot he wanted me to shoot at f22 and focus on the bridge. As I was using M4/3 I was very reluctant to do this due to the diffraction and actually shot at f8 (I actually don't think there's any diffraction issues at this aperture) and focussed about 3m away.
P7092098 by TDG-77, on Flickr
I'm interested to know what technique folk use and why?
I know once upon a time most would shoot at the smallest aperture possible to get the max DOF, but more recent thinking has been to use a wider aperture to minimise diffraction, focussing at the hyper focal distance.
I personally use the latter, shooting at f8 on crop, and f5.6 on my M4/3. Apparently M4/3 suffer bad diffraction at apertures smaller than this, and at f5.6 they have the equivalent aperture of f8 on a crop anyway. I'm currently waiting for delivery of FF so will probably shoot at f10/11.
Earlier in the year I went on a landscape photography course and the guy was 'adamant' that you should still shoot at the smallest aperture possible (f22 in his case), and focus on the main subject of the frame (hadn't heard this before). For example, in this shot he wanted me to shoot at f22 and focus on the bridge. As I was using M4/3 I was very reluctant to do this due to the diffraction and actually shot at f8 (I actually don't think there's any diffraction issues at this aperture) and focussed about 3m away.
P7092098 by TDG-77, on Flickr
I'm interested to know what technique folk use and why?