Thanks, Paul. I liked it because of its thickness and weight ...
But it might be overmuch. You've given me ideas for alternative renderings. :-) Godfrey On Nov 25, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Paul Crovella wrote: > The thick, out-of-focus stick is distracting, but bringing it into > focus > doesn't help. It's the thickness of it that makes it seem ungainly > among > the reeds. > > Cheers, > Paul > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> Thanks for the clarification! >> >> It's interesting ... that's three comments on this list preferring >> more DoF. Comments from other lists haven't mentioned it at all. >> >> I photographed this scene both at f/3.5 and at f/11 as it was hard to >> tell in the viewfinder or LCD which one would do what I wanted: >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/48ba.htm >> >> To my eye, the deeper DoF loses the dimensionality I was after and >> becomes a little too planar. I wished I could have gotten just a >> little bit more blur, a little shallower DoF. >> >> Very interesting what appeals to other eyes... !! :-) >> >> Thanks for all your comments. >> >> best, >> Godfrey >> >> On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:40 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: >> >>> Godders - he means the out of focus reed in the background - top >>> right >>> bothered me, too. >>> >>> I liked your little free verse intro , though >>> >>>> Thank you for your comment. >>>> Can you be more specific? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. >>>> >>>>> Don't care much for the out of focus ones... >>>>> >>>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/48b.htm >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
