[Street Photography] FOCUSING TIPS: Zone Focusing/Hyperfocal Distance, Autofocus Area Selection

This is a video tutorial on Street Photography Focusing Tips and techniques, including Zone Focusing/ Hyperfocal Distance, Focus Peaking and Autofocus Area Selection. Clearly explained, you will be able to get sharp candid street photos with both manual and autofocus, on prime or zoom lenses.
Specifically, this video covers:
01:17 Overview of agenda
01:59 Manual Focus for Street Photography - Zone Focusing/ Hyperfocal Distance
02:52 Requirements for Zone Focusing/ Hyperfocal Distance
06:06 How Zone Focusing/ Hyperfocal Distance work?
09:03 Zone Focusing vs Hyperfocal Distance?
09:44 When to use Zone Focusing/ Hyperfocal Distance for Street Photography?
10:47 Manual Focus for Street Photography - Focus Peaking
12:38 Auto Focus for Street Photography - Focus Area/ Zone selection
13:23 Autofocus for street photography examples
14:32 More thoughts
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[@shutterradio]

Wow, that was super useful! Not much info on Internet about zone focusing. Going to try out area focusing!

[@BelindaJiao]

hey David, brilliant! You absolutely will be amazed :) have fun!

[@corkyyarbro6239]

Great video. Thanks for putting this together.

[@BelindaJiao]

hey my pleasure :)

[@ArturBernardoMallmann]

Amazing tips.

[@theblackmanarmedwithacamera]

Great video packed with loads of info! SUBBED!!!🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@BelindaJiao]

Hey thank you!

[@sanysmail]

Keep it up! Looking forward for more.

[@BelindaJiao]

Hiya thank you! (:

[@olympus2OM]

Learned a lot.

[@p.l.5860]

Great explanation.

[@Theytoldmetodoit1]

This was very informative and educational. Thank you.

[@BelindaJiao]

cheers, tried to put in as much info while keeping it light :)

[@olympus2OM]

Well done.

[@olympus2OM]

Well explained.

[@barrymedlin6587]

Great stuff Belinda! I recently purchased the Nikkor 50mm prime and was so glad to see you explain it. I need to practice a lot on this one!

[@BelindaJiao]

hey Barry, lovely coincidence haha the Nikkor nifty fifty is gold :D what are you using it for mostly?

[@barrymedlin6587]

@@BelindaJiao I bought it originally for astrophotography, but wanted to use it around our small town and a lot of pics came out blurry. Just have to keep at it😀👍🏻

[@LachezarDolmov]

Very informative video - thank you ;)

[@BelindaJiao]

Hiya cheers glad to hear! :)

[@cameronbell843]

Thanks for the video Belinda, actually didn't know about any of this stuff. Also nice coat

[@BelindaJiao]

Cameron, great minds think alike, you must have good fashion taste yourself haha

[@cameronbell843]

@@BelindaJiao why thank you haha

[@olympus2OM]

Thank you.

[@aliu927]

* Patiently waits until Belinda becomes a Fuji user * XD. Good Video. I use zone focusing a lot myself, makes me feel like I immerse myself into compositions and not worry about missing a moment.

[@BelindaJiao]

where do you usually set your zone at? i usually just set it to infinity lol. Good luck with the wait, i was indeed looking into fuji cams for their film presets because I thought i wasn't getting into film but then, that was what exactly i did lol

[@aliu927]

@@BelindaJiao Usually depends on what I'm doing and where I am. With my 28mm, I, usually pre-focus at 1m to 1.5m using sunny16 ( on a bright day of course), I tend to hover around f8 to 4 still focusing usually 1.5m. If I'm working a scene, and I want get extremely close I range anywhere from 0.5 to 1m.

[@BelindaJiao]

yea f4-8 is kinda delicate, the field isn't that wide tbh. I feel you, such a bummer that it almost only works on sunny days 😂

[@olympus2OM]

Congrats.

[@A-RA-N]

Parfait 👍

[@BelindaJiao]

Hey Alex cheers! :)

[@louise.r.k8460]

thank you

[@BelindaJiao]

My pleasure Louis

[@onigrapher]

Great video, very informational. I tend to back focus with a mixed zone focus. With an autofocus lenses. 😁

[@BelindaJiao]

amazing, this makes these videos so worth making :) back focus is an interesting approach - is there a reason why?

[@onigrapher]

@@BelindaJiao I tend to use back focus button to refocus. When doing manual focusing. Examples like a lot of mirrorless camera. They have focus by wire lens drives bothers me lol. So I use it to refocus again.

[@BelindaJiao]

is this something specific to mirrorless? sounds like something i'd wanna read up about lol :)

[@Openbaffle]

for most, street photography, aperture f8 center focus ss 1/250 and auto iso will do the trick.for most number of lenses sweet spot would be around f8, i am a Sony shooter, most of my lens f8 gives the sharpest image, my focal length is 16mm prime.

[@BelindaJiao]

Harish, yes f8 is widely agreed to be the sweet spot. And tbh, for zone focusing to work at all, f/8 is minimum (numberwise)

[@A-RA-N]

Parfait

[@dieterperry7472]

Hyperfocal distance works best with wide angle lens the wider the lens the larger the depth of field scale. Nikon’s manual focus lens are excellent for this method of focusing

[@BelindaJiao]

Dieter, these scales look oddly old-fashioned, but they are truly a gem :)

[@olympus2OM]

Street photography isn't easy to come along with.