It looks like I went wild enhancing the colors of this image, but I didn't. The sunset was exceptionally blood-red. This is the quiver tree forest in Keetmanshoop, Namibia. I thought about desaturing the image to make it look more natural, but these colors turned out to be so surreal I left them as is. I used a 24-105mm lens at the widest focal length, and my settings were 1.6 seconds, f/22, and 200 ISO. The long exposure tells you how much the light was reduced. Half of the sun was hidden by the horizon. For maximum depth of field, I focused to 8 feet. That number comes from my formula, which mirrors the hyperfocal distance, where I take the focal length -- 24mm -- and divide it by 3. That number, in feet, is where I focus for maximum depth of field given the focal length, the distance of the camera to the foreground, and the lens aperture.
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