Adirondack Pilgrimage

Once a year, I make a journey to the Adirondacks. It's my favorite playground, and only half a day's drive away. That said, this one was a bust. My partner got sick (as par the course for him, this is now the third consecutive trip that's been cut short so guess who finally learned their lesson?), and so we wound up driving 700 miles roundtrip to hike four.

At least I made these. Each landscape was two shots, one for the foreground focus/ground exposure and one for background focus/sky exposure. I was also inspired by a photographer I met at the field where the first photo was made to run with a more medium-formatish cropping. He was shooting with some crazy MF, don't ask me what kind, but it was neat.

ADK Loj road

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Very nice, my favorite is #3. Maybe the photographer was using manual focus to set the hyperfocal distance for the aperture that he was using. That will result in the greatest depth of field.

Bill Boehme wrote in post #8470352
Very nice, my favorite is #3. Maybe the photographer was using manual focus to set the hyperfocal distance for the aperture that he was using. That will result in the greatest depth of field.

Very true. But since I'm shooting two exposures, one for brights and one for darks, I might as well go beyond the hyperfocal and grab the entire frame in focus by focusing in two locations. Or something like that!

Do you use focus stacking software like the macro guys or do you blend them manually?

Cool shots. Number #3 (Marcy Dam) is the winner for me.

Cheers, Craig

Bill Boehme wrote in post #8471817
Do you use focus stacking software like the macro guys or do you blend them manually?

Manually. And that goes for panoramas and everything else I do with photoshop. Sure, it's definitely more time consuming, but I know I get tighter results if I spend the time doing things by hand.