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Sony a57
Carl Zeiss Sony 16-80mm
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Thanks - really appreciate it.
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Beautiful shot. It looks like everything is a much larger scale than it really is.
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Thank you!Β That's probably because I was holding the camera almost at ground level.
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Thanks. I like shooting with the sun low in the sky.
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If I ever manage to capture a image like this, I'm honestly jealous
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You're very kind, and it really means lot to me to get any sort of feedback like this. A lot of the time it just feels like you're chucking stuff out there and no one sees it.
Anyway, FWIW this is some of what I did, from memory, if it's any use.
First, find a beach, I guess 
I stopped down the aperture as far as I could without getting diffraction (probably about f11) to give me as much depth of field as possible. Β I learned from seeing wilderness photos by Peter Dombrovskis the technique of making the foreground or a foreground object take up a big part of the photo, and then try to get the background in focus as well.Β
This wasn't quite possible, but because I was shooting straight into the sun and this was giving the distamce a bit of a hazed effect, it wasn't as noticeable.
There id a technique called 'Hyperfocal Distance', which some people actually crunch numbers and come up with exact distances to use, but I just guess. Basically I focus on a point somewhere short of the horizon, because if you focus on Infinity you'll
Β never get decent focus in the foreground (this is rough, and I mean visually, not in literal distance).This gives you the best chance of having everything in frame acceptably in focus. It varies depending on aperture and focal length, but in this shot it's probably bout 2/3 of the way up the beach, or maybe 3/4.
The lens is a Carl Zeiss Sony 18-80mm zoom. It was the first time I'd ever used it, so I was a bit lucky. I,d have to check, but it's obviously set at the wide end. This cost me about $375 au, but they are over a grand new. They're only for Minolta or Sony a-mount aps-c cameras. This isn't very important, but I mention it for completeness.
I didn do much to it in post at all - I rarely do. It's a jpg not a RAW. I sharpened it a bit, but I don't remember touching the contrast or colours much. I apply a little bit of extra sharpening contrast and saturation in camera, but nothing too much.
I was happy with this. I don't shoot landscapes eitn zoom lenses that much, but there's no reason why you shouldnβt if it s a decent lens.
I can go look up specific info on the settings if you like. I'm typing this on the iPad and don't have access to it at the moment.
I forgot to mention, one reason I like these a mount Sony's, though everyone is buying their smaller mirror less cameras these days, is because it has an articulating screen which I can use to see what's in frame even if I've literally got the camera on the ground. I'm not sure if I used it in this shot, but it's very helpful for any shots where I'm getting low to the ground to take a low level puc (like the one of the duck that's top of y page at the moment)
The camera is a Sony a57, which are crazy cheap these days. You'd probably pay $350-450 au for one. It has focus peaking, which I Couldn't do without, because I use manual focus quite often.
Thanks again
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Thank you for the wall of info
The hard part for me atm would be to find a sandy beach
I do have an A7s, but I'm currently limited to some not so super lenses. I think the Zeiss lenses are beautiful in terms of quality, but quite expensive here.
I've tried focus bracketing before, but not exactly experimented with it to get results.
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