On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bit too busy... I like the main characters... the concept, etc... but I > bet if you had had your old > film camera in your mitts you would have made very shallow DOF for this... > > the background gets in the way.... > > no I think it was HIS idea :-)
Hey Ann, I think it's a bit busy, too, but hey, I can find stuff wrong with most of my photos! ;-) I think the issue here isn't film vs. digital, but rather which lens I had on the camera. In this case it was the 16mm Zenitar fisheye (semi-fisheye on the *istD). No matter which body I have it on, there ain't gonna be much OOF stuff goin' on. I also couldn't have gotten much closer to the subjects than I was in the case of this photo - I'd have been standing between the artist and the couple. With something in the 20 to 30mm range I might open up and get some nice bokeh to isolate the foreground, plus I might get some of the peripheral distraction out of the frame and I think it would have been a much more satisfying photo. But, as I said, the issue isn't film versus digital, IMHO. Thanks for the comment! Thanks to everyone else who's commented as well! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
