Jay Taylor wrote:
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
Thanks, Jay!
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?
It's a pretty sweet shot - I wouldn't worry about that extra
sharpness...
I like the bokeh - I don't care if the tip of his beak is
soft...
But I think you might have had a bit of camera shake - and
that, and not
soft focus is what is just a tad off about it.
Did he catch the fish? :)
BEst,
ann
Bird may not cooperate if you bracketed focal point :) :)
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
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:40:40 -0700
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: PEOW: Great Blue Heron Portrait
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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
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