Thanks very much, Larry. Intrigued by your DoF comment I pixel-peeped the shot. I estimate that the plane of focus includes Annie's hair (her bangs over her forehead), her fingers (handle of the cup), and her right shoulder and upper arm. Her knee and that piercing are actually soft. Her eyelashes are in reasonable focus, but her eyes are closed so that matters less.
That was a kind of one-off shot as I was mostly shooting to include environment and I scooted forward on a whim to get that close-framed shot. I most likely tried to focus on her eyes but focus-recompose may have thrown that off, or I just blew focus because I just wanted to capture the moment. On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> It has been an interval since I annoyed you all with a shot. So here's >> another from my Déshabillé series. >> >> About a 2 on the 0-10 scaled NSFW-o-Meter. >> >> http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/G0000Pswv0g5Z9bQ/I0000PNL4h00ZZqI > > > It's a very nice photo, with a very quiet peaceful feel to it. > > Interesting, the right side of the bookshelf gives the photo both a "square > composition" and a "horizontal composition, and the photo is well composed > in either case. > > The plane of focus seems to be on the handle of the coffee cup and the > piercing, but not on her eyes, which doesn't make sense, unless you were > shooting up at her. I think it might just be the sharp, hard edges make > those more prominent. Looking more closely, her knee and shoulder also seem > to be pretty sharp. I think it might have been improved a bit if the field > of focus were further back so that her hair was sharper and her knee was > less sharp. > > Did you, by any chance, get any shots of that pose from about two feet to > your left of this one? Or was there too much clutter to the right of the > bookshelf? > >> >> 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/8, 1/125th sec, 100 ISO; handheld; mix of >> strobe and ambient. >> > > Very nice, a classic example of the genre. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
