Got mouse?
by snaffles

Comment:
excellent capture!

Fauna
by albc28

Comment:
the skin tones seem very off to me and the pose seems forced

S'up?
by tanguera

Comment:
awesome expression

Adrift
by scooter88

Comment:
haunting

Cotton Island New Year's Vacation
by alexlky

Comment:
i like the textures in the rocks and sky and the 'smoke' water is always a cool effect

sunset in back and white
by bobcc

Comment:
lovely reflections - too bad about the title typo

Silhouette
by slickchik

Comment:
the patterns generate complex interference patterns

Soaring Eagle
by Drake

Comment:
nice and crisp

River Tay Night
by GADriver

Comment:
I like the shimmery nature of the lights. I am just not sure I like the placement of the horizon - I think if it were my photo, I would have dropped the horizon on center.

Regarding the question on the aperture and focus - the objects he is focused on are all at a similar focal plane (near infinity) so he is not going to be a problem especially using a wide angle set up as he did.

DOF calculators are a cool thing and can answer this question pretty quickly. The benefit of going to the 'middle' of the f-stop range for landscapes often has more to do with hitting the 'sweet spot' of lens where the images are sharpest. You want to close down the aperture if you want both objects very close to the camera and far away to be 'in focus'. In the case of the photo here, there is no close object to worry about.

A quick DOF calculation shows that if he was focused at objects more than 15 or 20 feet away at 18mm on his Canon T3 at f3.5, his near focus point would by about 8-10 feet and his far focus point would be infinite.

volleyball
by mbrutus2009

Comment:
Some nice action shots in this set. But I would watch your white balance - these really are strongly on the yellow side. This is very typical in gymnasiums like this, so I would recommend adjusting your w/b setting to match the lighting (fluorescent) or bring a gray card so you can set it manually in the gym before the event.