San Francisco: Shooting it Like a Pro

Hoagland encourages beginning photographers to play with aperture and narrow depths of field, the portion of a scene that appears sharp in an image. For this shot of Alcatraz, taken through a chain-link fence, many shooters might push their camera lens right through the holes between the wires. Hoagland chose instead to mount a 200 mm lens on his camera, step back about five feet from the fence and use the links as a foreground element, giving the remote prison island a forbidding air.

• 1. Alcatraz
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