How to FOCUS in Landscape Photography - Get SHARP Photos
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2020
- Catching Focus from front to back is essential in landscape photography to get sharp photos. In this video, I'll show how I focus with my camera and how I get everything in focus from the foreground to infinity in my landscape photography. There are several different techniques to focus but very little techniques to get everything sharp and in focus from back to front.
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The M on the Flexible Spot stands for Medium. If you select the option to the left or the right you will se there is an S (small) and an L (large)
thank you, only here to correct that fcs
Thanks Mads for this great tutorial on landscape focus! Good tips and advice that I will put in practice ASAP!
Mads, great guide. The tip around long focal lengths is one that often gets overlooked. Well done.
Mads you are a fantastic educator, I love you videos that I have only just discovered.
Thanks again for another great review, I really like fact that you give us information from other CZcamsrs as a reference. You’re one of the few that seem to do this out of passion more than profit.
Thank you for such a clear vlog and explanation, Mads. Excellent and really helpful.
I love your obvious ease at presenting the "how-to" of your photography. I have this camera and had no idea that the plus button put a crosshair into the photo! I can't wait to try out focusing using this new tool. I have always used it to blow up the image on the LCD screen. Beautiful photography and your two e-books are fantastic resources!
Very helpful and inspiring, Mads. Thanks for sharing your focusing technique!
Thank you for re-enforcing the focus stacking concept for amature photographers!
Thanks for making this nice tutorial!
Such lovely greens! Thanks for the great video about focus.
This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.... Thank you for explaining it so well :)
Excellent tips Mads - all very useful! All the best!
Excellent Video/tutorial without the need for technical mumbo jumbo .. straight to the point with good clear simplistic instruction..Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us .........subscribed and thumbs up
Thank You, Excellent Video, Excellent Teachings.
Very hard core science- I know most of this stuff but it doesn't hurt to review and you are such a pleasure to listen to.
Thanks that was really helpful especially the bit on when to focus stack
Always informative and always in beautiful settings to captivate your viewers.
Great video, a journey in learning that is constant. Never boring I think.
love the way you explain things and I can't believe this video doesn't have more likes than 4.5k because it's the best I've seen for showing how to do landscape focusing!
Great description. Love it thoroughly
Thank you Mads. A tasteful vídeo. 🙏
Best video I have ever watched on where to focus. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so very much, John! That means a lot! :)
Hæ Mads.
Just found your channel and it answers all of my questions as well ás the the ones I didn’t yet know I had!
Very much looking forward learning a lot from you.
Best regards from Iceland
Awesome information Mads, thank you and stay safe
Excellent information.thank you.
Great video Mads, and a fantastic explanation of focusing.
I found the video easy to follow and enjoyable.Bless you. may everyone get something out of your teaching. Peace God Bless.
Excellent video, as always. I focus stack when necessary with my D850. You inspire me to explore more unique landscape opportunities in my state so that my eye for compositions will improve. At that, you are a master. Thank you!
Easy to understand and to start using right away. Thanks for sharing!
Great information Mats. Thank you!
I learned a lot from this video. Thx!
This was a fantastic video. I figured things out that I hadn’t before. Thank you kindly.
Hi Mads. I enjoy your videos and have learned a great deal from you. Thank you 🙏
Great video. Well laid out and understanable. Thank you
Mads, It's not flexible spot manual, it's medium - you can choose medium, small or large focusing spot.
Makes sense! I always wondered why they'd put "manual" there ;) Thanks!
Fabulous, simple and brilliant👏👏👏
What I was traying to learn...Thanks..❤❤
Great explanation. We don’t want technical but simple explanation. When we are in the field that’s how we photograph. Thanks for a great vlog.
You're very welcome and thanks a lot, Colin! :)
This will help me a lot. Thank you
Very informative. Really enjoying all your videos.
Great content!! And helpful advices!
Great video & comments/advice..thank you..
Great explanation. I have learned a lots of things about focus
Since I also photograph I understand your viewpoint and examples very well. The one thing is to make mistakes and practice more and more and the motor skills and practice together becomes second nature. Thanks for the video Mads Peterson, cheers.
Love seeing the Aarhus countryside. Such a beautiful land. So many memories of visits; someday I have to return.
Yes, there are some beautiful areas around here. They require another way of thinking than photographing in Iceland or other mountain areas.
Omg I never knew about the cross hair technique, thank you so much Mads!
Very very good, thank you.. great tips.
Excellent Mads! You really explained focusing in simple, laymen terms. The in camera examples are what people need to see to better understand the technique. Seeing is believing. Well done!
Thank you very much! :)
Stunning camera you have, great video by the way.
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Great content,Thank you very much.
Well done presentation! Most helpful!
Learnt a lot thank you
Great video explaining the focusing workflow. If this, then do this, if still not in focus then you need to do this. Perfect video. Thanks very much
You're very welcome! Thanks a lot :)
Mads, great video. You are one of the best landscape photography educator on the web, Thanks for your work.
You're very welcome and thank you very much for those kind words :)
Great, once more again !!
Great stuff, TY!!!!
Good down to earth info , great work
Great video! Thanks a lot
hello Mads fantastic tips to improve sharpness in landscape photography congratulations
Excellent tutorial Mads
Awesome video! Thank you 🤝
You rock. Many Thanks
Beautiful landscapes
Great explanation, thank you, you helped me a lot!! :)
Thank you for this
Super helpful and easy watching : )
awesome video great info
Very nice, thank you.
Enjoying your videos
Great tutorial
great video ......again! thanks Mads ;-)
Great job thank you again.
Great video !
Another great video :) cover everithimg i need to know to get everiting in focus :)
Excellent presentation. I came across your channel recently and am still catching up on some of the older posts, but I really appreciate your focus on elevating one's photography as an artistic pursuit. With this video I finally understand the "1/3" technique as approximating the hyperfocal distance. For a time I got caught up in trying to do the math with hyperfocal distance, but your explanation gives me the confidence to keep it simple and use focus on infinity, focus about 1/3 in, or focus stack.
There are so many factors to consider if you want to make it into a science, so generally I just work pragmatic and see what works :)
Thanks. Very helpful. 👌
Thanks for all your vids they are extremely useful for someone like myself just starting out. I have the Sony a7iii and can’t seem to figure out how you are configuring your camera for flexible spot focus then zoom in and get the crosshairs to move to chosen focus area.
Thank you Mads.
You’re content is the best.
Thank you, so, so much! 🙏
nice. thank you so much.
I’m heading out to practice shooting 1/3 into the scene and shooting at infinity. I think my Hangul is that I’m still learning my camera and really need to understand it’s different focus modes. Thank you for a great tutorial!
I asked you about this on Instagram so thank you!
These are really difficult films to make and your delivery is very admirable. It was once pointed out to me many moons that depth of field isn't affected by focal length as long as the subject remains the same size in the frame with each focal length and the same aperture. I didn't believe it but when you pixel peep at the distant part of the wide shot, he has a point. But that's science and I don't pretend to or want to understand it!
I think its when you keep the same distance to the subject and the background. Depth of field affected by the magnification ratio. If you stay in the same spot whatever zoom you take will not change the depth of field. It nice "fun fact", however I think it does not have much practical use since there is not use comparing photos where subject is of different size, and when you start moving to have the subject fill the frame in the same way you than change the distance to the subject and therefore the magnification ratio...
Great Thanks
Thanks Mads. Great tip about using the magnifier option mapped after the Flexible Spot. Have set up a quick key for that now on A7R3
You're welcome :)
Love your videos. Hope you took some of that Wild Garlic home with you. I go out to pick that with a couple of friends when it's in season. Tasty stir fries :)
WOOOOOOW, this 'AF check' with AF-ON button is great, I usually use the continuousAF where this function doesn't work and from time to time I have missfocused landscapes:D
Good content Peter.
Thanks for the wonderful images from Denmark, and yet another video with easy understanding tips. And thanks for admitting to use Autosetting on the camera. Manual setting can be scaring for a lot of people who get told not to use automatic.
It's about using the tools you have :)
Thank you
the issue with focus stacking as your samples show is that the wind moves the brush and leaves and they are not in the same position in each frame so that you introduce motion blurr into your final stacked image
Mads, at the end, I think you meant "the relative depth of field DECREASES" (not increases), when you get closer, or use long focal length, etc. Excellent video, though!
Thank you so Munch .
It is by far the best explanation I have ever seen, I always wondered about focus stacking. Thanks to you Mads, It helped me a lot. I use Nikon D5200 (definitely I need to upgrade) but how do you recommend focusing if I dont have touch screen here?
Mads. Thank you for another great video! I would like to see a video on how you set up your ARiii
That's a very specific video, I don't think I'll make one of those ;)
But the thinking is to just have easy access to the most used tools :)
Hey Mads, I would be really interested in a Video about Focus Stacking. Especially when it comes to the amount of photos and the distance between shots, while using camera automatics. Maybe it is even recommended to use manual pictures for that? Much confusion about that here. I am shure, I am not alone with that. Thanks an keep it up. Love your work!
Thanks
I don't understand how people dislike this vid.