Learn How To Focus at the Hyperfocal Distance in 1 Minute!

In this video you’ll learn how to focus at the hyperlocal distance, step by step. So you can use it as a focusing technique in your Landscape photography, Milky Way photography, Star Trails photography...

You surely know that when focusing at the hyperfocal distance, everything falling from half of this distance to infinity will be in focus or "acceptably sharp".

The hyperfocal distance is commonly used in landscape and night photography to maximize depth of field when shooting with a wide angle lens (10-35mm).

Also, if you’re interested in learning more about hyperlocal distance and in taking the creative control over what’s in focus and out of focus in your photos to tell the story you want, make sure not to miss our detailed depth of field guide:

You’ll get:

- All depth of field theory explained with examples.
- More than 60 inspiring photos.
- Free online calculators (depth of field, hyperfocal table, circle of confusion, diffraction, macro doc…)
- Lots of fun while learning!

[usoashy]

You guys are just brilliant. I can't imagine how long it took to develop such a concise app that maps out EVERY important thing about shooting the night sky. It was worth every penny spent :)

[normsaari]

I continue to be amazed and educated by watching the Photopill learning videos. Great job. Please continue your education in terms and tone that are very understandable.

[pauloricardoferreira]

Pretty awesome video! Brilliant! It's short but very elucidative! Thank you so much, Rafael, The Bard!

[ff]

Awesome, guys thanks so much for putting the effort into this APP. Its totally transformed my way of thinking and the way i capture my images. Ed

[fulinfoong]

Thank you for the video - useful and easy to understand. 👍😍

[ntartienii]

thanks for this, very useful. .what about if I am alone..is there an app I can calculate the distance of my steps by myself and put an object as reference point and then go back and focus on that? How would you do it by yourself?

[stevejarvis]

For some reason I've followed your link from a previous video but ended up here and Im watching this is Spanish, is there an English version of this video Rafael?

[vishwajitnegi]

Reading the Photopills detailed DOF guide + watching the videos. Great job in explaining a confusing topic for us not so proficient photographers. A question though on focusing at the HF distance in a scenario like taking night or day cityscapes from a height ( tall building, rooftop, balcony, viewing galleries etc) With no reference points its difficult to visualise the distance even using AR…..what’s the focus trick you recommend ? OR just focus on one third of the frame? I usually struggle to get the background to infinity absolutely sharp especially in night-scapes from a height.

[oneharry_og]

So after the calculation with the PhotoPills apps just make sure your focusing on a point just outside the hyperfocal distance? For example at 14mm at f/11 subject distance of 3'5" I need to make sure I focus just outside of the hyperfocal distance of 1'11" correct?

[yvesroire]

how do use it for a 24/70mm thank u and do u measure the distance fro the lens or sensor, what about the height
thank u kind ly

[keithhill]

What do the symbols mean in augmented reality? Specifically the circles with the bars on either side. What's happening after the tree?

[runtime_engineer]

Dummy question, but what is the focal length and how can I find that? Is it just the "mm" number I have my lens set at? For example, using a 70-300mm lens and I have my lens set at "100mm" focal length?

[chrisl]

Thanks for answering this question!!!!

[qin]

Is this calculated based on full frame? Will it auto chance to equivalent focal length once I chose my camera type in the software?

[lottel]

It is possible that instead of using AF to focus for hyperfocal distance, you set it manually on distance scale?

[akhan]

hello photopills

please inform me
what 5m
near aperature value

[MrBluesfly]

On ''subject distance'' field i am little confused. If i want to take a photo of man standing in front of a lake with mountains around, my subject  is the man? That distance i fill in? And if no man in the frame then for what subject i measure? The closest subject-point that i want to be in focus?  Thank you

[kelv]

This is a great explanation and works really well, but I use back button focus and never set to manual focus, so I presume this method is also correct.

[easywedge]

So this just made my investment in the Focus on Stars filter a waste for 80% of my shots. Lol. Oh well… thanks for the info!

[MichaelFreitag]

Does something like this exists for android phones?