Thank you all for the comments! I am not 100% sure they are overexposed. I agree that in the last two, the flash was too harsh. I didn't have a reflector on hand, and I think I decreased the power of the flash but it was still to much from such a small distance.
If I remember correctly, there were two reasons I was trying to use a flash: First, as a "fill-in" flash, because the sun was strong, creating strong shadows. Second, - I was also trying (not shown in these shots), - to get the berries with the blue sky and white clouds as the background. The latter was totally unsuccessful in the time that I could spare for shooting these raspberries. I still think that having the entire berries in focus on the first two shots would be beneficial (in addition to better lighting). Igor Fri Jun 19 15:49:21 EDT 2009 Rick Womer: > Igor, > > I don't think the problem is with DOF, I think it's exposure. > > What would happen if you cranked everything down by a stop? > Fri Jun 19 00:48:52 EDT 2009 Joseph McAllister > Too much flash lite on these make them weird. Use a reflector, or less > lite from the flash. Fri Jun 19 05:03:35 EDT 2009 Boris Liberman: > Hmmm... I reckon I should pay a visit to mister Dictionary. > > Argh. It turns out I made a mistake. What I shot were Blackberries, not > Raspberries, though they look similar and taste similar too. I would disagree with the latter. > > Yours are interesting shots, though they look ever so slightly > overexposed to me. I am thinking you used a flash while I haven't. > Although I should probably start using one. > Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Boris, > > > > I just came across the photos I couldn't find previously. > > > > These are the photos of raspberries (not flowers of any sort ;-) ) > > that I was talking about. The first two do not have enough DOF (IMHO). > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Raspberries2/IMGP7076.jpg > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Raspberries2/IMGP7081.jpg > > > > The other two have plenty of DOF, but something still doesn't quite > > work > > for me: > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Raspberries2/IMGP7063.jpg > > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Raspberries2/IMGP7065.jpg > > > > Igor -- 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.
