Aperture Confusion?

google hyperfocal distance, shoot at no slower than 1/focal length.of a second

>>2681020
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>>2681020 +1
Basically, focus to the infinite and go for an aperture of ƒ9 ~ƒ11, even if you have to bump the ISO.
Are you french? I swear your picture is in France.

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>>2681024
Nah, Amerifat here. Took in a city park in my area.

But thanks for the info, I was always worried about going to a higher aperture because im used to my shitty point and shoot giving me noise at anything about 800ISO. Guess i'm gonna have to trust the camera more and when I take these wide open shots to let the ISO go up.

Still need to figure out what shutter speed I should being and when I should be using it. Like in my first post about the humming bird, how fast do I gotta go to freeze it? How slow of a shutter can I do for off hand shots? Guess stuff like this is gonna come with time. Gonna go to Valley Forge today as soon as my wife wakes up to snap a few more pics and get in a another autumn hike.

Here is another shot from my first outing

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1/2000 or 1/4000 for hummingbirds.

>>2681024
nice ƒ

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>>2681024
>focus to the infinite

No, it's best to focus at the hyperfocal distance. - the focusing distance that gives you the most DoF.
Which depends on the focal length, aperture and circle of confusion (the latter is a bit subjective)
You can download an app to calculate it.

For example:
18mm, f/11 and a 0.02mm CoF will give you a hyperfocal distance of 4.76ft
Focusing there will put everything from 6.8ft to infinity in focus.
If you focused at infinity you will get far less of the foreground in focus.

>>2681028
>Guess i'm gonna have to trust the camera more and when I take these wide open shots to let the ISO go up.

No, try to avoid higher ISO's.

The noise won't be too bad.
But you will lose dynamic range and color accuracy.

For landscapes you'll want as much dynamic range as possible, to capture details in everything from the bright skies to the dark shadows.

If you are serious about landscape photography you're going to want a tripod, and not a flimsy one either.

>>2681070
I do plan to get a tripod, just gotta find a light weight one that I can fit into my backpacking load out. My pack right now is 56lbs without camera so far.

>>2681060
this example is shit because it completely dismisses diffraction which happens with small apertures typically further than f/11, with some lenses even like f/8. even using a tripod you should never really go further than f/14 but it starts to ruin the photo