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Trying Something Different Pine Lake on Tasmania’s Central Plateau is one of those places where there always seems to be another composition waiting if you slow down and look around. For this image, I wanted the foreground vegetation to play an important part in the composition rather than simply using the old pencil pine as the main subject. The problem was that the foreground was quite close to the camera, while the tree was some distance away. Normally, this would have me thinking about focus stacking. Instead, I decided to try something I hardly ever do and stopped the lens all the way down to f/20. I wanted to see if I could get enough depth of field to hold both the close foreground and the distant tree reasonably sharp in a single exposure. Yes, diffraction starts becoming a consideration at apertures like this, and it’s certainly not a setting I’d routinely use. But photography is often about compromises, and sometimes the technically “wrong” setting is the one that solves the problem in front of you. The other issue was the water. It was quite choppy, which created a lot of texture and distraction through the middle of the composition. I wanted something quieter, particularly around the reflection of the tree. So I added a 6-stop ND filter and extended the exposure out to 30 seconds. That smoothed the movement across the lake and also allowed some movement to develop in the clouds, giving the static landscape a little contrast. Settings: f/20 | 30 sec | ISO 100 | 6-stop ND I’m generally reluctant to use very small apertures simply to gain depth of field, particularly when focus stacking gives us another option. But it’s easy to become too rigid about the technical rules we set ourselves. Sometimes it’s worth trying the simple solution first. After all, nobody has ever asked me what aperture I used before deciding whether they liked a photograph.

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