Both the muted colors and the perspective from being 10m away add to
the 'flatness'. No side-lighting for modeling, too much distance for
near-far perspective differentiation. DoF alone isn't it, although
people often like to use focus zone blurring to provide the illusion
of depth.
On relatively flat subject matter (in terms of planar surfaces...),
restricted DoF is usually not the answer ... I don't think it would
have helped too much in this case.
My comment was primarily directed at the tonal flatness in this photo.
Godfrey
On Oct 26, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Markus Maurer wrote:
I used the SMC Takumar 85mm 1.8 here from about 10 Meters distance,
not a
big tele.
But after thinking a bit more about it: maybe the light fall angle
was not
ideal for deeper shadows which would give the illusion of depth. It
was
later in the afternoon but still.....
I think this ends up flat, I agree with Godfrey, because of the
compression when you use a big zoom (the house wall looks like it's
directly behind the wall around the grounds. Nice photo anyway,
and I
also like the muted colours.
Would be nice to know what exactly makes a photo look flat, it's
not only
DOF is it?
I agree here and will try a conversion to b/w but still like the
muted
colors somewhat.
It seems just a bit flat for my taste, both the composition
and the
rendering. Have you tried a grayscale rendering? Might prove
interesting.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3813470&size=lg
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