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Landscapes and soft or lacking focus
c2.beverly:
Are there any posts on how to avoid soft or lacking focus on large landscape photos? I have a lot of photos with multi ridge lines and I just can't seem to exceed the reviewers standards.
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ShadySue:
Are you upsizing?
If not, what camera/lens are you using?
increasingdifficulty:
This is how you get photos that are sharp throughout the frame:
• Use a lens that's sharp throughout the frame. ;)
• Stop that lens down to where it performs best. This is usually around 2 stops down from wide open. You can look this up for most lenses.
• If you are relatively close to what you're photographing or if there is great distance between important subjects you will need to resort to combining several photos, each with a different focus point - a.k.a. focus stacking.
That is how really, really sharp photos of cityscapes are made. To get even bigger resolution and sharpness you can also combine several photos vertically and horizontally.
• Also, using a medium format camera or a DSLR with 40+ megapixels can help if your lens is up for the task.
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A cheaper DSLR with the kit lens is not going to give you perfect landscape/cityscape shots.
Chichikov:
--- Quote from: increasingdifficulty on June 30, 2017, 12:21 ---This is how you get photos that are sharp throughout the frame:
• Use a lens that's sharp throughout the frame. ;)
• Stop that lens down to where it performs best. This is usually around 2 stops down from wide open. You can look this up for most lenses.
• If you are relatively close to what you're photographing or if there is great distance between important subjects you will need to resort to combining several photos, each with a different focus point - a.k.a. focus stacking.
That is how really, really sharp photos of cityscapes are made. To get even bigger resolution and sharpness you can also combine several photos vertically and horizontally.
• Also, using a medium format camera or a DSLR with 40+ megapixels can help if your lens is up for the task.
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A cheaper DSLR with the kit lens is not going to give you perfect landscape/cityscape shots.
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You forgot the most important: use a tripod, and switch the image stabilization off!(and use a remote control… maybe)
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: Chichikov on June 30, 2017, 12:54 ---You forgot the most important: use a tripod, and switch the image stabilization off!(and use a remote control… maybe)
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I would've thought that was obvious. ;) Hard to do focus stacking without a tripod.
A remote control is good but often not necessary since you can just use the shutter delay function on most cameras.
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