Landscape photography is just like any other genre in that you can do everything right, but if you miss focus, the resulting image will be a throwaway. So, what can you do to ensure that your photos are perfectly in focus every time you press the shutter? This helpful video tutorial will show you one professional landscape photographer's secret.
Coming to you from Mike Smith, this excellent video tutorial will show you how to ensure your landscape images are properly focused. No doubt, focus is one of the most crucial and fundamental things, but thankfully, in landscape work, we often have a bit of extra time to ensure it is exactly where it needs to be. Like Smith, I generally like to avoid focus stacking if possible. If you have things like quickly moving clouds or wind-blown trees, it can cause issues, and it is also more work and overhead on the post-processing side of things. That being said, if you have a very near foreground element and you want everything sharp from that all the way to infinity, focus stacking is likely the best candidate, but for a lot of shots, you might be surprised what you can do in a single frame with some careful technique. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Smith.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."
Thanks for sharing Alex, much appreciated! 👍