Hey everyone, just a quick question before hubby kicks me off the
computer...
This may seem like a totally dumb question, but please remember that
everything I know about photography I have taught myself, so you can expect
that I will have missed a few things here and there.
At a BBQ on Friday night (don't say it, I know BBQ = meat = very naughty
for Good Friday, but I'm a vego anyways, so there...my kids ate sausages
though. hehe)... Anyways, at a BBQ on Friday night, a woman and I were
talking about photography and she claimed that she had this friend who was
an "expert" on landscape photography, which I basically know ZILCH about.
She claimed that his number one tip was to shoot EVERYTHING in landscape
photography at f22 to ensure maximum depth of field. Ok, so here is my
question, (and please forgive me if I am wwaaaaay off track here), but when
you are shooting, say a lake, or a beach scene at 6.30 at night and you need
more light, doesn't it make sense to shoot as wide open as possible? The
lady I spoke to argued the point of depth of field with me, but unless I am
reeeeally mistaken, I thought that the theory behind a lens which focuses at
"infinity" meant that after your subject is a certain distance away from the
lens (eg. 8 metres on my Vivitar 28/2) the focusing switches to infinity
which basically means that everything is in focus anyways? I mean, if that
is not the case, than what is the use of having a "fast lens" when only a
miniscule amount of your shot will be in focus?
I am sure that I sound really backward and totally clueless to even very
basic photography rules on this, but if her friend is truly an "expert" then
wouldn't he be correct in his f22 theory? And if he is, can somebody please
elaborate on this for me, cause I have definitely lost the plot
somewhere....
Oh, btw, Merry Easter!! (Well, some people say "Happy Christmas" you know!)
8-)
fairy.
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