PIN-SHARP LANDSCAPES

Capturing sharp landscape images is harder than it looks. Technically, we can only really focus on one point, or plane, in an image. For the landscape photographer, the trick then is to make it appear the entire image is in focus – or at least the important parts of the scene appear sharp. It’s a juggling act between focus, composition, aperture and depth of field. There are compromises and workarounds (as there always are in photography), but if you know what you’re doing, pin-sharp images are just around the corner.

1 GO WIDE

The first step in capturing sharp images is choosing the right lens. Typically, landscape photographers use wide- and ultra-wide angle lenses to get extensive depth of field. Wide angle