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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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Increasing Your Depth of Field Through Focus-Stacking

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When you’re constructing a landscape image with a strong foreground, how do you keep that foreground element (like maybe a rock, or a tree limb, or a wildflower) in sharp focus? Getting the stuff off in the distance, like a mountain or a large rock formation, is easy as it’ll be taken care of by using an f-stop like f/11. But, how do you get that rock or wildflower right in front of you as sharp as the objects in the distance? You use what’s called “focus stacking” to increase your depth of field. You’re going to take multiple shots, focusing on different areas of your landscape, and then you’ll ...

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ISBN: 9781681984346