Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[taco2go]

great shots Brad, and yellocoyote.

It really is a tricky equation of distance to subjects, lens choice like wide to tele, capture format size from point and shoot to large format, and where you place your center of focus. As a rule of thumb though, at least with a cropped sensor, anything beyond F11-13 really starts to become a point of diminishing returns, where by any gain in depth of field due to smaller apertures is negated by a robbing of resolution due to diffraction.

Thanks for sharing that Trevor. I've found after a lot of trial and error, that this is largely the case with FF cameras too.
On the 5dm2 with 17 -40mm, I am rarely if ever pushing f13.
The kicker for me, is the point of focus. Sometimes, " a third into the scene" is hard to decipher.

 

[Lost Canadian]

great shots Brad, and yellocoyote.



Thanks for sharing that Trevor. I've found after a lot of trial and error, that this is largely the case with FF cameras too.
On the 5dm2 with 17 -40mm, I am rarely if ever pushing f13.
The kicker for me, is the point of focus. Sometimes, " a third into the scene" is hard to decipher.

Actually that doesn't surprise me Joash. I'm not 100% on how it works but pixel density also plays a roll. A lot of Sony guys were grumbling about diffraction rearing its ugly head at f9-10 on the A77 because of the A77's pixel density.

As for focus, I think Aaron mentioned it before, but live view and/or the depth of field preview button can help quite a bit.

 

[Lost Canadian]

Saw this intriguing pool of plant oils near the base of some dead pines today. Shot taken with the Fuji X10.

 

[Tucson T4R]

That's a pool of plant oils? What the heck?? Very nice capture.

Thanks for the input on the aperture. I'll give that a shot on my next outing.


Practice, practice, practice... :elkgrin:

Actually I really want top go back to Toroweap in late summer when there are monsoon thunderstorms rolling through the canyon. If you want to get some sweet shots that would be the opportunity. Let me know when you decide to go. It would be great meeting you and doing some shooting together. :elkgrin:

The rude part of summer at Toroweap is the temps. Probably runs around 105 F during the day. Luckily I cheat and have A/C to hide in during the day and we can only emerge for the sweet light at Sunrise and Sunset. :wings:

 

[Lost Canadian]

That would be great! I'll most certainly give you a shout when the time comes!

 

[Lost Canadian]

Snagged this one as well when the sun popped out briefly, but unfortunaly it was windy out and the pool of oils was moving around. Stupid me, I didn't select a fast enough shutter speed so I got some blur in the top half of the pool/frame from the moving water which sort of spoils it for me.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

I dont know Trevor, That's a pretty cool Abstract! It would be great printed on a Canvas so the inks would bleed just a bit! Most would think it was a painting!

 

[nwoods]

Yellowcoyote, that close up owl shot is really cool!

 

[yellocoyote]

Thanks. I have a couple of other owl shots from that session - none as striking as the one I posted though. Here are a few of the others.

 

[Tucson T4R]

Very cool. Owls are amazing looking creatures. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tucson T4R]

Trevor, back to the discussion on aperture settings. When I want to try to catch a star burst of the sun rising or setting across the horizon I was under the impression to get the best staring effect I need to stop all the way down to F20 or F22.

I have not tried to capture this effect on more open apertures. Was my understanding incorrect? Can the same staring effect be picked up at say f8?

Thanks.

 

[Lost Canadian]

Trevor, back to the discussion on aperture settings. When I want to try to catch a star burst of the sun rising or setting across the horizon I was under the impression to get the best staring effect I need to stop all the way down to F20 or F22.

I have not tried to capture this effect on more open apertures. Was my understanding incorrect? Can the same staring effect be picked up at say f8?

Thanks.

Hey Brad,
Yeah small apertures are best for very pronounced star bursts, but you give up a considerable amount of resolving power by doing it. There's certainly a trade off.

You could always try a little test for yourself. Just take a couple controled shots at home of the same scene with varying apertures and look at the results. I'll bet F20-22 looks like mush compared to something in the F5.6-11 range.

I can get satisfactory sun burst results at around F11 with my D7000, albeit not quite as pronouced as yours above. Nice shot by the way.

 

[RHINO]

tell me what you guys think about this,,, i like it but something needs to be improved and i dont know what or how. maybe just DOF?

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

tell me what you guys think about this,,, i like it but something needs to be improved and i dont know what or how. maybe just DOF?

The tree branch is a bit distracting. It makes me want to see the rest of the tree.

 

[Tucson T4R]

Hey Brad,
Yeah small apertures are best for very pronounced star bursts, but you give up a considerable amount of resolving power by doing it. There's certainly a trade off.

You could always try a little test for yourself. Just take a couple controled shots at home of the same scene with varying apertures and look at the results. I'll bet F20-22 looks like mush compared to something in the F5.6-11 range.

I can get satisfactory sun burst results at around F11 with my D7000, albeit not quite as pronouced as yours above. Nice shot by the way.

Thanks Trevor. I'll try some comparison shots around here and check it out.

I appreciate the input.