On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:23:55 +1300 "David A. Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Desjardins wrote: > > > How do you think about DOF in the artistic sense and how does that > > manifest itself in you photography? > > I like shallow DOF. Especially in my macros. It helps to isolate my > subject and give a quasi-3rd dimension to my pictures. I too like a shallow DOF. Fortunately I have just re-written my site http://www.wildcherry.com.au and have a few images there from some time ago. There are only two Macros atm but they do illustrate a shallow DOF as they were taken with a P30n with a bellows. The first is http://www.wildcherry.com.au/showimage.php?p=macro&im=myfrog.jpg in which I wished to get the eyes sharp as possible to hole the viewers attention and let the rest fall from view. The second is half a strawberry http://www.wildcherry.com.au/showimage.php?p=macro&im=strawberry.jpg in which I wished to get the whole of the subject in focus across the cut and let the rest fall away. I dont think I have quite succeeded in this shot as the flat of the strawberry is not parallel to the lense. Fortunately strawberries are just coming into season here in Australia so I will have plenty to choose from. Now, if someone could just tell me how do I stop from eating all the strawberries before I get a chance to shoot them ;) Kind regards Kevin -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Kevin Waterson Byron Bay, Australia
