Thanks for your thoughts. I tried that mod and am not particularly fond of it, it loses the balance that I want. It's an elusive balance that I'm looking for, and the contrast of thin and thick are part of it. This particular photo just might not make it, but I'm having fun working it. :-)
You can remove it, thank you. best Godfrey On Nov 25, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > I find the thick black stick is too distracting whether OOF or not. > Tried getting rid of it and cropping a little off the top. Results > are > here... > > http://tinyurl.com/2mdtx3 > > Removed in 24 hours, sooner if you like. > > -p > > 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.
