In April I'm returning to South Africa and Namibia with a photo tour, and one of my favorite places on that itinerary is Deadvlei, a dried lake bed filled with the skeletal remains of ancient trees. It is stark, graphic, and bold, and for a landscape photographer it is very exciting to see and photograph. The contrast of the orange dunes and blue sky is beautiful, and combined with the striking shapes of the trees and their shadows, it's hard not to take amazing pictures. Both of the images I've attached were taken with Canon's 14mm wide angle, f/22, and ISO 200. I focused to about five feet from the camera position, and with the smallest lens aperture of f/22, this gave me the maximum depth of field I could get with this lens and this composition. The formula I use to determine the focus point is the focal length of the lens, in feet, divided by three. So, 14 feet divided by three is about five feet. This is akin to the hyperfocal distance.
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