The concept of hyperfocal distance is well-know to landscape photographers where they use this technique to get amazing images due to the increased depth of field.

The hyperfocal distance is the closest distance at which a lens can be focused on while maintaining objects at “infinity” acceptably sharp. When the lens is focused on the foreground, all objects at distances from half of the hyperfocal distance out to infinity will be well-defined.

Here is the steps I followed to get the results as shown:

1. Keep the camera focusing in manual mode.
2. Keep the aperture at the maximum f number, for example f22.
3. Keep the camera down on the ground and manually focused at the closest object in the frame.
4. Now recomposed the shot to include the rock and the sky while still keeping the camera on the ground.

Your camera needs to have a stable platform to shoot, or shake/blur may affect the photo. This concept is also used to capture water flow/falls with some amazing results.

Canon 1DX + Tokina 11-16mm lens, ISO 320, f22 @ 1/160, Evaluative Metering at Zero, Aperture Priority.