wind turbine at end of rural path between green hedges

Medium Format Street Photography: Camera Settings, Setup, and Techniques

A practical starting point for many medium format street photography situations is 1/250 sec, f/5.6, Auto ISO, and AF-C for moving subjects. Increase shutter speed as subject movement becomes faste...

Blue hour aerial view of a lakeside town, captured at 100MP for large-format printing

How 100MP Changes Large Landscape Prints

A landscape photograph reveals itself differently in print. From across a room, the viewer first notices light, structure, and atmosphere. At close range, smaller elements emerge: distant trees, we...

High-contrast mountain landscape with a luminous sky, sunlit peaks, and visible detail in shaded terrain

Dynamic Range in Landscape Photography: Preserving Light, Shadow, and Detail

Dynamic range is the span between the darkest and brightest tones a camera can record with usable detail in a single exposure. In landscape photography, that span may include a luminous sky, sunlit...

Snow-covered mountain landscape beneath a pink twilight sky, photographed with a medium format camera.

Medium Format Landscape Photography in Film and Digital

Medium format landscape photography uses a sensor or film frame larger than full frame to preserve more detail, tonal information, and color within a scene. Its value becomes especially clear in la...