Sorry, I forget that everyone is not on broadband everywhere. Here is the smaller version: http://i.pbase.com/o4/87/63987/1/63102287.xVSnM975.GBHPortraitSmall.jpg
I hear you guys on the DOF, but I wonder if one can still maintain a nice background bokeh while increasing the depth of field? What would be nice is if our cameras had an auto bracketing feature for DOF. I guess when making these images it might be worth taking several shots at different f-stops. JayT > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:40:40 -0700 > From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: PEOW: Great Blue Heron Portrait > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hello, Jay ... > > I almost stopped the download of your file, but I was into it quite > a bit > and decided to wait until it loaded completely. There's no reason > or need > to post an 825K file fore a web image. Many viewers are on slow, > dial-up > connections, and the wait to see a file of so great a size can be > quite > long. Had I tried to download this during a time when Internet > traffic was > heavier, I would have stopped the download. > > When I first saw the bird's eyes I was thinking that this was going > to be > something special, and really worth the wait. But, alas, it turns > out that > DOF is too shallow, and apart from the eyes and an area around the > top of > the beak, much of the bird is not in sharp focus. The tip of the > beak is > not sharp, nor is the neck and feathers, both areas which seem > important > (at least to me) in a shot such as this. > > I really like your subtle sig in the lower right corner. > > Jay, for the most part I really like your work, but you continually > post > very large-sized images that sometimes make it too time consuming > for me - > and I know others - to enjoy viewing. > > Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
