Pear Blossom

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Essence of Imagery

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Last Friday, I took a trip up to my old hometown of Kelseyville, CA to pick up a trailer from my parents. I figured the trip was a good excuse to take the camera and see if there was anything interesting to capture.
The pear orchards are slowly being removed in favor of the vineyards, which is a sad thing, since we used to bill ourselves "Bartlett Pear capital of the world".
This was taken with a "new to me" 24mm f/2.8 lens:

pearblossom.jpg


Thoughts? Comments? Critique?

This is a crop from the original.

ISO 100
24mm
f/2.8
1/2,000th
 
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fotojack

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Essence of Imagery said:
Last Friday, I took a trip up to my old hometown of Kelseyville, CA to pick up a trailer from my parents. I figured the trip was a good excuse to take the camera and see if there was anything interesting to capture.
The pear orchards are slowly being removed in favor of the vineyards, which is a sad thing, since we used to bill ourselves "Bartlett Pear capital of the world".
This was taken with a "new to me" 24mm f/2.8 lens:

pearblossom.jpg


Thoughts? Comments? Critique?

This is a crop from the original.

ISO 100
24mm
f/2.8
1/2,000th
Click to expand...

Beautiful shot, EofI. Question: why was the shot at 1/2000th? Was it windy?
 
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Essence of Imagery

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fotojack said:
Beautiful shot, EofI. Question: why was the shot at 1/2000th? Was it windy?
Click to expand...

It was very bright with direct sunlight.

@ ISO 100, I was against the stops there, @ f/2.8 (for DOF reasons) I couldn't really adjust, so I went with the leg of the triangle that I COULD adjust.

I also didn't think to pull out my polarizer filter, which would have slowed it down, but not too significantly.
 
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Joseph Bautsch

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EOI, Excellent shot. Good composition. I also don't think a CPL would have made much difference. It was the f/2.8 for the bokeh that was important and you got it. Nice.
 
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Carolina Photo Guy

Senior Member
I like this shot. There is something about it that is calming to me.
I think it is because of the very pleasing bokeh background.
It is there and a part of the image without competing.
I think of this shot as well balanced.

Pete
 
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goz63

Senior Member
Nice picture. One question relating to the 1/2000 shutter speed. I too have taken some pictures with higher shutter speeds due to the aperture that I want based on DOF. Is there a trade off? Meaning is there a downside to high shutter speeds if freezing the action is not an issue?
 
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