Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philippe, As B.D. said, digital gives you greater DOF than film (assuming the sensor is smaller than full frame). The particular picture was shot with a 2.8/200mm lens, at full aperture or close to it, since I tend to shoot at wide apertures to keep the shutter speeds short. I was on a boat, they were on a boat, the two boats were moving in opposite directions--so I only had time for 3 images. This one was the best--there is another one that is better compositionally and does not include the black barge, but the dog is looking away from me. As for manipulating the image to take the barge out or blur it in Photoshop--both of those would be against my self-imposed "digital code of conduct" which basically says that I will not do anything in Photoshop which I did not do when I was printing in the wet darkroom. This means that cropping, rotating, levels adjustments, conversion to B&W are all OK, but taking out or adding elements, or selectively blurring them, is strictly Verboten. The only exception to this rule is unsharp masking--I did not do it in the darkroom, but in the digital world it is necessary, so I make an exception there. BTW--all camera and lens details are always shown in the list under the thumbnails table on my PAW page (http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html). If you look there, you will note that four of the week 37 PAWs were shot with a Leica lens (the wonderful 100mm Apo Macro). Nathan Philippe Orlent wrote: > True. A bit wider, cropped to the right to get the black barge out (or > blurred), and it would have been perfect. The discussion about whether or > not B&W would be more suited is just a personal one. > But I have a question, though: > > Nathan, I suspect you used digital. Don't know if it was zoomed or with a > fixed focal lenght lens. But I imagine you shot it fairly open. Do you find > the shallower DOF of non-full sensor digital sometimes (as in this shot) > restricting when not combined with the full possibilities of PS? In such a > situation, I would not hesitiate to take the barge out or blur it, that's > why. > > Philippe > >> >>http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_37alt8.jpg >> -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com