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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: armand on October 31, 2019, 06:52:16 pm

Title: Backyard
Post by: armand on October 31, 2019, 06:52:16 pm

First sleet/snow, had to go outside for some quick grabs.
First 3 are handheld, last 3 are on a tripod as I was shivering too bad to get anything sharp.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: armand on October 31, 2019, 06:53:10 pm

On tripod

PS. all are with the Z7 and 50 1.8S

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: degrub on October 31, 2019, 07:16:01 pm

#1, #4, and #5 are my votes

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: armand on October 31, 2019, 10:18:20 pm

Thank you!

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 01, 2019, 05:59:21 am

#1, 4, 5, and 6 for me.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: Bob_B on November 01, 2019, 09:05:05 am

#4 really stands out.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: brandtb on November 01, 2019, 09:16:01 am

hh and tri-3 are nice. You could look at hh cropped to roughly square around the 3 central leaves as an option. In the jpeg Tri doesn't appear to have the bunch of leaves that are the central most subject in any kind of focus except for a tiny little area(s)? It would have been a very nice image if there was a "reasonable" amount of focus on the "central subject" and the snow or ice(?) on leaves - and the bg OOF as is which is nice.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: armand on November 01, 2019, 12:09:56 pm

Thank you!

Quote from: brandtb on November 01, 2019, 09:16:01 am

... In the jpeg Tri doesn't appear to have the bunch of leaves that are the central most subject in any kind of focus except for a tiny little area(s)? It would have been a very nice image if there was a "reasonable" amount of focus on the "central subject" and the snow or ice(?) on leaves - and the bg OOF as is which is nice.

Yes, I was determined to shoot wide open at F1.8 so I set the iso to 64. When I wanted more dof I decreased the aperture but didn't go higher on the iso, which lead to a very impressionistic shot due to the wind. I was too cold to try increasing the iso particularly as the background from a previously stopped down shot was not very nice, see attached at F11 (and 5 sec exposure vs 1/8sec for the one initially posted). Another option was to combine the foreground from a stopped down shot with the background from the wide open shot but with all the movement would have been difficult, and honestly I didn't think the shot is that nice to worth the extra effort.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: John R on November 01, 2019, 12:25:57 pm

It's the last shot for me. Combining the earth with the light and sky (heavens) is both surreal and symbolic!

JR

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 01, 2019, 06:30:10 pm

Yes, this last one is great.

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: armand on November 04, 2019, 10:41:59 am

Thank you.

A couple more, one with a tighter framing and another group of leaves

Title: Re: Backyard
Post by: armand on November 04, 2019, 10:44:23 am

Almost mono, red and yellow