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The Landscape Photography Book
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The Landscape Photography Book

by Scott Kelby
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English
Rocky Nook
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How to Set Your Focus on Stars, Method 2

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If you don’t have a lens with a distance scale window on it, then you’ll use a different method (and it actually works really well). First, set your f-stop to its lowest number (f/2.8 or f/1.8), then crank up your ISO to some crazy high number (just for this focusing part) to make the area as bright as possible, and then turn on Live View mode (so you’re looking at the image on the LCD on the back of your camera). You’re going to leave your Auto focus turned on, and aim your lens at the farthest object you can see—it can be a far off mountain, a tree, whatever the farthest thing away from you is that your ...

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ISBN: 9781681984346