Originally posted by jgnfld First 17mm pic: f4, focus point was main lighthouse.
Well, the light house may be sharp as a tack but how would a viewer tell? What dominates the image is the brush in the foreground which, of course, is
not in focus so the general impression is one of softness. So, yeah, get back up there, shoot at f7.1, focus on that rock in the center and see what happens.
Think of it this way: at that distance, you're not really taking a photo of the lighthouse, you're photographing a scene with--oh yeah--a lighthouse in the distance. If you want a photo of the light house, skip the climb and get closer to the lighthouse.