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Marcel

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It looks like you used a PC lens on this. Was this rendered using PS perspective control function?

Marcel, this is a very nice picture. I do find it a bit strange that it has such shallow depth of field for being shot at F/8.0
Jeff


Depth of field was there on the original shot. I used a blur filter and then masked the area I wanted to stay focused. Trick is to copy your layer and then apply the filter and mask what you want. :)
 

Marcel

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Day 202, July 20th

Nice web I saw this morning in the yard. I just couldn't get it any sharper...

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Mike150

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Why is it everyone's spiders are so organized when web building? The spiders I encounter make great globs of webbing that show absolutely no structure at all.
 

Carolina Photo Guy

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Why is it everyone's spiders are so organized when web building? The spiders I encounter make great globs of webbing that show absolutely no structure at all.


Because you're in Virginia with a lot of Black Widow spiders.

Everybody knows that the Black Widow spider ALWAYS fail the engineering exams! :)
 

Marcel

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Day 203, July 21st

Enough sharpness focus. I decided today I'd go for the pointillism look with a lot of bokeh

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Marcel

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Day 204, July 22nd

I had to do some tree trimming and got these remnants. Used what I had for today's pic. Other stuff to do… :)

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grandpaw

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EVERYONE needs to be able to do this. How many here have noticed just how perfect this is for a portrait backdrop?

Just a thought.

Let me understand this correctly. On a portrait I am supposed to use a lot of bokeh for the background and then deliberately put the focus out on the subject? Everywhere else they say to focus on the eye and get it sharp and use bokeh for the background. I think I will stick with the old fashion way, but that's just me. Jeff
 

Marcel

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Let me understand this correctly. On a portrait I am supposed to use a lot of bokeh for the background and then deliberately put the focus out on the subject? Everywhere else they say to focus on the eye and get it sharp and use bokeh for the background. I think I will stick with the old fashion way, but that's just me. Jeff


I think what Pete said was that if I was to make a very large print of my out of focus shot, it could be used as a portrait "backdrop". You are right about the subject closest eye being in focus in a portrait.
 

Marcel

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Day 205, July 23rd

Decided to do macro with the flash and a diffuser for fun and just to have something to post for the day.

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Marcel

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Day 206, July 24th

Big storm last night and my little plant got wet. Filtered and not filtered shots. I'm not sure which one I prefer.

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Marcel

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Day 207, July 25th

Had to work between meals this morning and caught 3 nice shots. 2 of customers and one of a antique rocking horse. All taken with the 700 and 24-70.
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