How did he take these shots?

[Delgado]

Can anyone tell me how Bill Brandt took these shots? I've tried to figure it out, but i'm not sure. We are looking at a long depth of field, but also a sharp foreground.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a233/delgado75/brandt_east_sussex_coast.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a233/delgado75/artwork_images_480_173560_resize_bi.jpg

I would have thought he is using the smallest aperture he can find - i wonder how small though. Perhaps there is a special lens for this kind of shot.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated - i'd love to know how he's done it.

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[-MasterChief-]

ultra wide angle -- maybe a 10-22, 12-24 or maybe a 14mm prime, f11-f16 maybe ... you get more DOF on ultra wides.

[narlus]

tilt-shift lens? focus-stacking?

[Mark1]

There are lens's that are like a P&S, where everything is in focus. They are rare in Photo. But I know the movie industry uses them regularly. Ill see if I can dig them up again. But if I recall, they are for the older film mount. I for get the name. The pre-EOS generation. But he shot this when it was easier to get a hyperfocal lens as some cameras were made this way.

Found this while looking....

In 1945 Brandt bought a special Kodak camera in a second-hand camera shop in Covent Garden, London. The camera had been designed to enable untrained police staff to photograph crime scenes. It had a very wide-angle lens. Compared to the standard lens of the Rolleiflex camera Brandt had used for his documentary photographs, the Kodak allowed him, he wrote, to 'see like a mouse, a fish or a fly'. He first used it for photographing nudes in interiors and then continued on the beaches of southern England and France. Later he used a Hasselblad with a Superwide-angle lens.