> On Aug 11, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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…
Thank you. And, yes, personal preference plays in so much on this. flickr tells me which photos people mark as favorites and the distribution among the passiflora photos seems to be pretty even. A lot of photos get one “fave”, very few get two, I don’t know if any of these set got three. -- 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.
