A Street photographer's guide to Zone Focusing with your camera

good tips even if you use your phone to take photos

There some good apps that make many of these camera adjustments possible with Android or iPhones

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Zone Focusing is great for street photographers. Using one of three simple methods you are manually pre-focusing your camera and lens and adjusting your aperture, for a specific distance where everything will be in focus and will have a deep depth of field, within that area (zone) that you have set the focus for.

Zone focusing takes away the focusing when you hit the streets for a shooting session.

But what is actually is zone focusing and how does it work?

Let's get into it.