What shutter speed? Flowers move around a lot in the breeze. Your problem May not have been focus.
On April 11, 2015 5:23:54 AM PDT, 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
