One of the advantages of small sensor cameras is that the very short actual focal length of the zoom lenses they have to use means great depth of field. This was taken with my Canon SX40HS at the equivalent field of view of a 36mm lens on a full frame DSLR, but the actual focal length is only 6.4mm. That makes a shot like this, with amazing depth of field, possible without resorting to very small apertures (which bring their own resolution problems). It was shot at f6.3 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 160, in Program with –1/3EV exposure compensation. (Of course, at the other end when shooting moderate to long telephoto shots, the actual focal length also means greater depth of field…which is not always an advantage with tel shots where you want to isolate the subject against an out-of-focus background. 🙁

I actually rode my electric scooter the 4 miles from home to Laudhome looking for this shot. The packed sky demanded an open landscape and busy field for foreground…or so I saw it in my mind.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.