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Re: Friday Photography Blog #22 (4.00 / 6)

I like finding obscure things to take photos of. This may have been a rabbit skeleton or similar.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 04:33:09 AM EST
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Re: Friday Photography Blog #22 (4.00 / 2)

I want that bone to fill much more of that frame. And I want the horizon straight. Were you limited by lens?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 04:59:50 AM EST
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I was crouching on the ground but couldn't lie down because it was soaked, hence the wonky horizon. The field was also on a slope too which didn't help judgement there. The horizon can be sorted in photoshop though.

I had my wide angle lens on this and was hoping to find a way to fill the frame more with the bones but it didn't work. I didn't want to go putting my kit down in the mud to change lens. What lens would have worked better?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 06:26:37 AM EST
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Re: Friday Photography Blog #22 (4.00 / 2)

What's the minimum focusing distance on that lens? What would have been useful here is a tripod that closer bring the camera up closer and lower, together with a wide angle that focuses up nice and close, stopped down to get the depth of field if you wanted it. I can see what you were trying to do which is why the shot annoys me.

It would have been an easy shot with the GR-D: 28mm lens that focuses 1cm away with huge depth of field and shiftable focus point - and there's generally a tabletop tripod in my bag that would have done nicely!

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 06:39:10 AM EST
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Off the top of my head I'm not sure, but I wasn't able to get in quite close enough and still get a good focus to make the bones more prominent.

I will have to practice on your advice.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 09:08:42 AM EST
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I was wondering with the "shadow" and the "bones" pictures about the vertical or horizontal framing endless debate !
I find that I more often frame vertically ! And when I used a square format (120/220) I had drawn vertical 1.5 ratio on the finder's ground glass...

Maybe something to do with my own vision (meaning eyes, not philosophy :-) )?

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 05:58:21 AM EST
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I think I used to be freer and more creative in how I framed and cropped my shots but now I read too many magazines that tell me to crop in standard ways. I must keep myself from doing that.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 09:15:18 AM EST
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