Larry, FWIW, I went through a phase with much macro and much fiddling with focus stacking and variations in aperture and variations in focal length of the lens. I found that I often was able to obtain quite good results (e.g., sharp, clear in focus front to back, etc) which I found not very pleasing. Before too long, if I took a stacked series of 30-40-50 shots of bugs and/or flowers, I found that I much preferred the outcome where I only used 5-10 slices. (And it cut down the boredom to shoot fewer slices.) On the other hand, I have seen examples of product photography (e.g., wrist watch faces) where I thought the extreme depth of field from deeply stacked images was just breathtaking.
In short, personal preference for composition, to include how much & how sharp to include anything before and beyond your primary subject. In that context, my favorites from a quick scroll through your series of 33 are #s 15362, 377, 402, and maybe 545. Those aren’t necessarily ones that you or anyone else would judge as the “best” of the lot, just my preference… stan > On Aug 8, 2021, at 12:18 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, that's about it. It all depends on what you are trying to accentuate. > > Alan C > > On 08-Aug-21 01:05 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> Well, Larry, you have certainly covered the field -- or at least the depth >> thereof! <G> >> >> I think most of them are effective, depending on what your intent is and >> what you are trying to illustrate. The exception is 20210807-LRC15365; I >> find the slightly OoF bug quite distracting in that image. >> >> Dan Matyola >> *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery >> <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 6:16 PM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I took another crack at the passiflora today, and there was a cute little >>> orange bug hanging out on it. >>> >>> I took things a bit more seriously, actually using a tripod and such. >>> Even so it didn’t take much of a breeze to get the flowers moving around a >>> bit, and it was a bit of a challenge juggling motion blur, noise and depth >>> of field. >>> >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51363571251/in/album-72157719660768917/ >>> >>> Since there was a discussion yesterday about depth of field, I tried a bit >>> of an experiment, for them that are interested. I bracketed the aperture >>> on several different compositions and posted photos starting at f/2.8 going >>> on up to f/32. Some of the photos might even have some artistic merit. >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719660768917 >>> >>> Alternatively, using the fluidr front end >>> https://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157719660768917 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
