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I find that I'm not very good with mid range settings.. i'm either using one extreme or the other. Is there any tips/practice techniques that I could do to improve?
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For example - landscape to me is a high f-stop, and when wanting background/foregrounds blurry, then a low f-stop.
When I see a professional photos, they always seam to have just the right amount of blur.
I can imagine just practice practice practice helps!
When I see a professional photos, they always seam to have just the right amount of blur.
I can imagine just practice practice practice helps!
For landscapes you're better not stopping down too far, most lenses are sharper at around f/8 - f/16. I generally use f/11 for landscapes and adjust from there if needed. To keep things sharp throughout I generally focus using the hyperfocal distance. See here... http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/camera_skills/mastering-hyperfocal-distance-56978
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I think what the OP means is that some shooters purposely use a limited DoF for their landscape shots. Creating an image that has a sharp foreground and slowly tails off, with the far background out of focus, but still with enough focus to make out what the objects are.
It seems to give the image more 'pop' and offers the appearance of depth more-so than just shooting at infinity or using hyperfocal methods.
I did see a nice example of this taken on a A7R with 55/1.8 it's much more difficult to do with a wide angle lens due to the larger DoF
It seems to give the image more 'pop' and offers the appearance of depth more-so than just shooting at infinity or using hyperfocal methods.
I did see a nice example of this taken on a A7R with 55/1.8 it's much more difficult to do with a wide angle lens due to the larger DoF
I tend to try to imagine the picture I want to get first and then use the settings that will achieve that. If you're trying to highlight something or draw attention away from something in the shot then you can use the aperture to your advantage. Then there's other times when you want to show everything in as much detail as possible 
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Thanks, I'll check that out.
I think what you're talking about is a bit too technical for my skills at the moment! I'm simply trying to stop producing shots where the out of focus portion of the photo is too much out of focus!
I tend to try to imagine the picture I want to get first and then use the settings that will achieve that. If you're trying to highlight something or draw attention away from something in the shot then you can use the aperture to your advantage. Then there's other times when you want to show everything in as much detail as possible
This is something that I try to do and I take shot after shot when I have time, but I recently got back from a family wedding where I wasn't quite fast enough to take the same shot with different settings.
It doesn't, no. Not that I know of anyway, its a D3100. This sounds like something that would be handy as it is difficult to see the resulting photo on my screen.