Actually, I imagined your situation to be much as you describe and learned that you shoot at about the same pace as I. The area I'm referring to appears much like a white scull cap on the figure. Hope clear.(?) I confess that I downloaded the image and cloned out the referenced area to check. Will be deleted immediately upon sending this.
J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cottrell" <[email protected]> To: "pentax list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 11:29:42 AM Subject: Re: PESO - Woodland, Leafield, 2017 On 16/4/17, Jack Davis, discombobulated, unleashed: >Only thing I see that I'd wish I'd done, were it proudly mine, would be >to increase the DoF to sharpen >some of the closer left one third. Thanks for your kind words. The pic was literally taken while on the move, hence there is some motion blur. There was one other frame but the figure in the distance had changed completely and so the moment was gone. If out walking with a very light, single lens combo, if it's a bright day then I only take the Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5. On Micro Four Thirds this gives a similar angle of view to a 30mm lens on 'full frame'. I'll set the focus based on aperture, in this case f8, and then generally leave it, snapping away at will. If the weather is poorer or I feel a need for something wider then I'll take the Samyang 15mm f/2 but this is much heavier. The Voigtlander can be a nice sharp lens at f/8, but as with any camera, care must be taken with shutter speed. I just looked and this shot was 1/60th at ISO 200. I keep ISO values on 4 custom settings on the main top dial, so C1 is ISO 200, C2 is 400, C3 is 800 and C4 is 3200. I should really have had it set to 4 or even 800 in the trees, I must have forgotten to change it after moving from open fields to shadow. I put the camera up to my eye and fired as soon as the shot was framed, slowing my stride slightly. In the event, I didn't mind the motion blur as my eye was drawn to the figure anyway and the shapes of the trees and branches gave it a slightly dreamy feel, almost nightmarish. >To show you how messed up I am, I'd have cloned out the white patch on >top of the figures head. >The more anonymous the greater the impact. Nor sure if I follow you here, do you mean the space immediately above the figure's head? Or higher up in the branches of the tree? ----- Original Message ----- Woodland ramble yesterday Olympus Pen F + Voigtlander 15/4.5 <http://www.seeingeye.tv/PESO/peso021.html> -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- 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.
