Landscape Photographer - Photography

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Atlantic Dream

Nice! I really like the Pelicans in this shot. I'm curious, how do you focus when you are shooting waves. Are you using af tracking, or manual focusing? I've been doing a lot of this this year (largely inspired by your wave work) and getting focus locked in were I want it has been the biggest challenge. I have so many "almost there" shots, lots of terrible ones too...ha. But I occasionally land one I'm happy with. It usually takes me a bit to get into a rhythm with my panning speed, but again more than anything I struggle with getting my Canon R AF to lock on. I'm usually shooting with my 100-400 and it's surprising how shallow the depth of field is even at f22-32.

Original postPosted Jan 13, 2022 at 12:27 PM

Re: Atlantic Dream

Nice! I really like the Pelicans in this shot. I'm curious, how do you focus when you are shooting waves. Are you using af tracking, or manual focusing? I've been doing a lot of this this year (largely inspired by your wave work) and getting focus locked in were I want it has been the biggest challenge. I have so many "almost there" shots, lots of terrible ones to...ha. But I occasionally land one I'm happy with. It usually takes me a bit to get into a rhythm with my panning speed, but again more than anything I struggle with getting my Canon R AF to lock on. I'm usually shooting with my 100-400 and it's surprising how shallow the depth of field is even at f22-32.