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Project 365 & Daily Photos
Jake's Backdoor Hippie-palooza, 2014 Edition
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 325455" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Nothing spectacular. Just a Wordpress-based site for the photography venture. Been playing with various templates and gallery content. Nothing there you haven't seen here yet. I just need to get it done so the gallery I've got work at can link to it from their artist section.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why not? Why over-think the shot you're looking at? I'm somewhat serious about this - I find that when you over think what's in front of you it can cause you to lose the shot. </p><p></p><p>This was initially a throw-away I was doing for a challenge on another website called "Shallow DOF Landscapes", so it was the minimum aperture I had on the lens. I squeezed this off, focusing on the closest thing I had to me, and pixel peeped. Next thing I did was take the lens off and put on the 28mm f/1.8. It was only after finishing that that I took another look at this before deleting the extras and thought it was more than usable. 19mm with a subject distance of 10 feet (about the distance to the nearest tree) gives you everything from 5' to Infinity at f/4. When I've got that lens (16-35mm f/4) on the camera I'm almost never thinking DOF with shots like this. Normally I'll keep it about f/5.6 as it removes what little edge softness there is from this lens.</p><p></p><p>I don't start thinking or worrying about DOF until after about 35mm with my zooms. f/4 gives you comfortable DOF in most situations wide-open that I don't have to worry about getting 1/2 a face in focus - it's one of the nice things about them. When I switch to primes, or put the 24-70mm f/2.8 on, then it's almost always with an eye towards narrow DOF and that's when I start thinking about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 325455, member: 9240"] Nothing spectacular. Just a Wordpress-based site for the photography venture. Been playing with various templates and gallery content. Nothing there you haven't seen here yet. I just need to get it done so the gallery I've got work at can link to it from their artist section. Why not? Why over-think the shot you're looking at? I'm somewhat serious about this - I find that when you over think what's in front of you it can cause you to lose the shot. This was initially a throw-away I was doing for a challenge on another website called "Shallow DOF Landscapes", so it was the minimum aperture I had on the lens. I squeezed this off, focusing on the closest thing I had to me, and pixel peeped. Next thing I did was take the lens off and put on the 28mm f/1.8. It was only after finishing that that I took another look at this before deleting the extras and thought it was more than usable. 19mm with a subject distance of 10 feet (about the distance to the nearest tree) gives you everything from 5' to Infinity at f/4. When I've got that lens (16-35mm f/4) on the camera I'm almost never thinking DOF with shots like this. Normally I'll keep it about f/5.6 as it removes what little edge softness there is from this lens. I don't start thinking or worrying about DOF until after about 35mm with my zooms. f/4 gives you comfortable DOF in most situations wide-open that I don't have to worry about getting 1/2 a face in focus - it's one of the nice things about them. When I switch to primes, or put the 24-70mm f/2.8 on, then it's almost always with an eye towards narrow DOF and that's when I start thinking about it. [/QUOTE]
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