Infinity focus perhaps should have Been only about 1/3 of the way into the scene.(?) Jack
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 11, 2015, at 5:23 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark’s post about stack focusing brought to mind a problem I encountered the > other day. I was shooting wildflowers at Arabia Mountain, just outside > Atlanta. (One of several stone outcrops, with unique ecosystems, that occur > here in Georgia.) I was using my DA 50-200 with the camera on a tripod with > aperture set at f/22. My target was plots of wildflowers 3’ to 5’ in > diameter, each with a mixture of species, some “normal" sized and upright, > others tiny and growing closed to the ground. I was 20’ to 30’ from the > target. > > I assumed that if I was focused at infinity everything within the target > would be in focus. I was also trusting autofocus to give me good focus. I was > very disappointed. The larger plants and flowers were reasonably sharp, > though nothing like what Mark showed us yesterday. But the tiny close to the > ground wildflowers were fuzzy. In the case I’m thinking of the tiny flowers > were in a strip 4” to 6” wide immediately in front of the larger plants. > > Any thoughts about why I got this result? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." > > - Amos Oz > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > > - Mary Oliver > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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.
