The iconic windmills of Holland are seen in Kinderdijk in the southern part of the country. The original sky was quite bland, so I used the Sky Replacement command in Photoshop to transform the image with one of my skies I'd imported into the software. I took this with with a 105mm focal length. The depth of field in this situation can be deceiving because you might expect, given the camera-to-subject distance, all of the windmills might be sharp at a large aperture. They may look sharp in the viewfinder as well. We expect long lenses in the 300 - 600mm range to have extremely shallow DOF, but at 105mm it often seems like you've captured all the detail in the scene at f/4 or f/5.6. That's not true, though. In this case, I specifically used f/22 to make sure all of the structures were as sharp as possible. I focused on the first windmill. If one or two of the distant windmills were a bit soft, this picture wouldn't have worked. I used a tripod, and my shutter was 1/40 with an ISO of 400.
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