aperture

The Aperture setting on the camera is one of the most used settings that a landscape photographer will use. It allows you to control the DOF and as such what will be in focus and what will not. On the above image I have used a shallow depth of field using a aperture of F5.6. Such a setting creates the image you see above and combined with manual focus allows you to determine the focal point - in this case the frost covered leaves. I decided to use a fill in flash to enhance the scene further and indeed bring the leaves to live more than natural light at this time of day could.

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