Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)
You are challenging us with this one Barry ! Playing games with DOF against us
On one side, there is a very strong push to follow the leading lines, the trunk and the river bed, but then we land in the out of focus zone and struggle to follow the course of the creek till the end. You are tricking us :thumbup:
Beautiful texture in the foreground BTW.
Thank you Annna, you are always very generous and kind to me with your comments...much appreciated.
I think Kirk with his more recent landscape images has had me rethinking about using a fast aperture for landscape photography...Rather than I just do my normal routine thing of automatically stopping down to circa F/8 with the hyper focal point trying to keep everything as sharp as possible from near to far throughout the frame.
The only trick is choosing what the actual sharp point of focus is going to be (personally I prefer that point to be slightly just off of centre and fairly close to)...It can sometimes just give you that sense of depth of actually being there!
Likewise I do think that fast 35mm and 50mm lenses seem to achieve this look still the best, probably because those two FL's closer replicate the way we see things with the human eye.
The main problem is if one is only viewing the image on a small screen then the actual point of focus becomes less obvious and that sense of involvement gets totally lost...That is one of the reasons I still leave an "Enlargement" link below.
Thanks again, you gave me the opportunity to explain myself...Cheers Barry
PS. Annna, please show some more of those excellent long exposure night time street scenes that you have on flickr.