Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: dalethorn on May 22, 2009, 11:23:28 pm
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I hope I don't get killed on this one - the original had a camera-shake blur effect, and I worked on this for quite awhile to hide as much of that as I could. Normally I would have several captures from the session, and pick the sharpest and clearest to save, and for reasons I couldn't predict, this was the best (or least offensive) of the lot. There might be a way to further sharpen this without exaggerating the existing blur, but so far I haven't found it.
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Well, the poison ivy is a nice touch!
Mike.
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Well, the poison ivy is a nice touch!
Mike.
If Dale touched any, he may beg to differ.
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Well, the poison ivy is a nice touch!
Especially when used as field-expedient bathroom tissue...
IMO this image's technical shortcomings outweigh its aesthetic merits. The headache I get from the blur outweighs any positive response the image might have gotten otherwise. Try reshooting with the aid of a tripod, and frame more tightly so that less cropping is necessary.
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If Dale touched any, he may beg to differ.
By pure luck, I didn't. I wonder whether poison ivy comes in different configurations, since the photos I've seen in books differ, and usually don't match what's in the forests.
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IMO this image's technical shortcomings outweigh its aesthetic merits.
That may well be the case. I've had a lot of experience fixing bad images, and things like this are an interesting challenge for me, for practice if nothing else. I'm sure I can print it at approx. 5x7 in., and display at arm's length for wall filler. It's good to keep a few of these around as reminders in any case.
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There might be a way to further sharpen this without exaggerating the existing blur, but so far I haven't found it.
Dale, Actually, there's a simple solution: grab a tripod and go back and re-shoot it. Unlike people on the street, fungi don't usually walk off.
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Dale, Actually, there's a simple solution: grab a tripod and go back and re-shoot it. Unlike people on the street, fungi don't usually walk off.
I wonder if the problem occurred because the camera was well stabilized on the monopod, yet the IS was on on the camera. There shouldn't be a problem shooting something like this handheld in the middle of the day, with a good IS lens (Panasonic), an effective focal length of 90 mm, and a shutter speed of 1/100 second. Even without IS/VR that should work.
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I wonder if the problem occurred because the camera was well stabilized on the monopod, yet the IS was on on the camera. There shouldn't be a problem shooting something like this handheld in the middle of the day, with a good IS lens (Panasonic), an effective focal length of 90 mm, and a shutter speed of 1/100 second. Even without IS/VR that should work.
Interesting observation. In my experience having the "shake reduction" on when using a tripod does indeed cause the image to go blurry. I have tried this many times using a tripod and couldn't quite figure out what was going on. I bought a cable release and still blurry images. I finally got some feedback on the Pentax site and read the manual which does indeed indicate that one should turn off the 'shake reduction if using a tripod. Of course, like you, I often get up in the moment and forget!
JMR
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Interesting observation. In my experience having the "shake reduction" on when using a tripod does indeed cause the image to go blurry. I have tried this many times using a tripod and couldn't quite figure out what was going on. I bought a cable release and still blurry images. I finally got some feedback on the Pentax site and read the manual which does indeed indicate that one should turn off the 'shake reduction if using a tripod. Of course, like you, I often get up in the moment and forget!
JMR
I really noticed this effect once with my 17-55/2.8 mounted on a tripod and using the live view zoomed in (10x). I was wondering why the image was moving around (not shaking but rather drifting around). When I examined the camera I saw IS was on, turned it off and the drifting stopped. And I think (would have to check canon site or lens "manual") that the 17-55/2.8 generation of IS is supposed to be advanced enough iteration that it can be used on a tripod. Apparently not.
Andrew