i was thinking about hyperfocal focusing/distance and it's either all or nothing isn't it?
meaning, you use the hyperfocal distance to focus at in order to pretty much get everything in frame to be in focus.
what you can't do is, get a foreground object in focus, then everything behind that object for the next say, 500ft to be out of focus, then beyond that 500ft to infinity to be in focus?
so lets say you were photographing a person standing 20ft away with say a field of flowers from 30ft - 500ft and a mountain several miles away. there's no way to have the person in focus, then the field of flowers out of focus, but the distant mountain in focus.