About an hour north of Los Angeles there is a small town called Gorman along Interstate 5, and the hills behind the town are covered with California poppies and purple lupine every April. There is a poppy reserve to the north, but the rolling hills around Gorman offer the best photography because of the artful contours of the land and how you can see the color so well due to the vertical rise of the terrain. I used a telephoto lens here specifically for the compression it offers. Landscape images require, in my opinion, complete depth of field. When using a long lens, the smallest lens aperture available is needed even though this isn't the sharpest f/stop on the lens. If complete depth of field is required, this is the only option unless you want to take the time to do focus stacking. My settings here were 1/125, f/32, and 640 ISO.
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Sep 8, 2021, 8:01:39 AM
Leanore E Gallardo - Thank you. Would have never thought to go that far on the aperture. Love the feel of this one!