Landscapes make for some of the most picturesque frames in photography. The lush green fields, snow capped mountains and cascading rivers are so naturally picturesque that when you capture them in your film, their beauty is enhanced even more. To get the right kind of landscape and to capture its beauty completely you need the basics of landscape photography. One of the major requirements for landscape photography is a huge depth of field. Since there is no fixed subject in landscape photography and you are trying to capture everything in great detail, you need to have a high depth of field.

If you look at the image on your left, you can notice that everything from the snow contours in foreground, the fence in the mid ground and the hills in the background, everything is in focus and you can see great details. This is the beauty of a great depth of field.

There are various ways in which a greater depth of field can be achieved. One of the first ways is to use a tripod at an extremely low shutter speed and keep the aperture minimum or f-number highest. The second way to do it is to use a wide angle lens. A wide angle lens, like the Olympus 14-54mm 2.8-3.5 super wide-angle lens, has a wider angle of perspective and it also offers a large depth of field; hence it is easier to capture distant objects also with great detail. The third way to get a higher depth of field is to focus on the mid ground of the frame. That ways you leave enough region in focus behind and before the line of focus (refer to the figure on right).