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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 118111" data-attributes="member: 12827">Thanks! I love photography on RR tracks but from my experience, very shallow depth of field is best. If the tracks are too sharp, especially in the background, it becomes distracting. I always use a long lens, at least 180mm, but often 300mm, both f/2.8 and close down 1 stop to f/4. The depth of field of the 300mm at f/4 is very narrow, so critical focusing is a must. All of my lenses are AIS so I focus manually. I have swapped out the focusing screens on both my F4S and D700 to microprism/split image ones. From my experience, focusing screens designed for use with autofocus cameras are generally unsuitable for critical manual focusing. Here is another image on the tracks showing how shallow the depth of field can be (just a couple of feet) but also how well it separates the model from the background without losing a sense of place:<img src="http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o690/photodotnet/Navannah_zps87ae953f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 118111, member: 12827"] Thanks! I love photography on RR tracks but from my experience, very shallow depth of field is best. If the tracks are too sharp, especially in the background, it becomes distracting. I always use a long lens, at least 180mm, but often 300mm, both f/2.8 and close down 1 stop to f/4. The depth of field of the 300mm at f/4 is [I]very [/I]narrow, so critical focusing is a must. All of my lenses are AIS so I focus manually. I have swapped out the focusing screens on both my F4S and D700 to microprism/split image ones. From my experience, focusing screens designed for use with autofocus cameras are generally unsuitable for critical manual focusing. Here is another image on the tracks showing how shallow the depth of field can be (just a couple of feet) but also how well it separates the model from the background without losing a sense of place: [IMG]http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o690/photodotnet/Navannah_zps87ae953f.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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