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Hi all,
I’ve read a LOT about focusing and how to do it, all of which I understand, but I can’t seem to find a useful guide about when to use a particular focusing method and where to place your point of focus. If there’s a key focus point in the image if just been placing my autofocus target on that, but in other scenes that are more busy (especially woodland scenes) I struggle to identify a specific point of focus and end up just focusing a third of the way into the scene, or attempting to use hyperfocal distance.
Hyperfocal distance seemed to render the foreground elements slightly OOF. Is it just a decision you have to make at the time? Focus on the foreground elements and lose definition in the background, or use hyperfocal and lose some definition in the foreground? What type of shot/composition makes a good candidate for hyperfocal distance? The other thing I find difficult with hyperfocal distance is that the calculator tells me to focus at 1.91m and the focus scale on my camera is in increments much larger than that.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Matt
I’ve read a LOT about focusing and how to do it, all of which I understand, but I can’t seem to find a useful guide about when to use a particular focusing method and where to place your point of focus. If there’s a key focus point in the image if just been placing my autofocus target on that, but in other scenes that are more busy (especially woodland scenes) I struggle to identify a specific point of focus and end up just focusing a third of the way into the scene, or attempting to use hyperfocal distance.
Hyperfocal distance seemed to render the foreground elements slightly OOF. Is it just a decision you have to make at the time? Focus on the foreground elements and lose definition in the background, or use hyperfocal and lose some definition in the foreground? What type of shot/composition makes a good candidate for hyperfocal distance? The other thing I find difficult with hyperfocal distance is that the calculator tells me to focus at 1.91m and the focus scale on my camera is in increments much larger than that.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Matt