This is Mt. Morrison in the Eastern Sierras near Lone Pine, California. I used a landscape technique whereby I placed the camera position very close to the foreground, used a wide angle lens, and selected the smallest lens aperture for complete depth of field. The point where you focus is a simple calculation in which you divide the focal length of the lens by three, and that number in feet is the place where the lens should be focused. I used a lens equivalent to a 21mm wide angle, so I focused about seven feet away. This gave me the most depth of field possible given the lens, the aperture, and the distance of the lens to the rock. The fact that the foreground rock formation seems disproportionately large compared to the background comes from the use of a wide angle and the close proximity of the camera to the rock. I shot this with film in the 90’s, and my settings were probably 1/2, f/32, and 50 ISO because I was using Fujichrome Velvia 50.
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