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10/10/2004 04:37:10 AM · #1 |
| With the large amount of macro shots in this challenge I have found that many of them are spoiled by a lack of depth of field. I thought that most people knew that DOF is very shallow with this subject and use of a\the smallest F/stop is needed.Or am I being picky? in marking down for this. |
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10/10/2004 04:42:52 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by kiwinick:
With the large amount of macro shots in this challenge I have found that many of them are spoiled by a lack of depth of field. I thought that most people knew that DOF is very shallow with this subject and use of a\the smallest F/stop is needed.Or am I being picky? in marking down for this. |
Depends on the shot.. sometimes a shallow depth of field really enhances an image if you're trying to to focus a viewer on a certain area of the subject. You have to vote how you feel, of course, but voting down simply for a *lack* of DOF and for no other reason is a little silly. You don't always *want* to use the smallest aperature.
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10/10/2004 04:48:22 AM · #3 |
| I appreciate that and have taken it on board but out of focus areas in front of the main area seem to distract my eye from the image itself |
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10/10/2004 07:18:19 AM · #4 |
Being picky :)
Originally posted by kiwinick:
With the large amount of macro shots in this challenge I have found that many of them are spoiled by a lack of depth of field. I thought that most people knew that DOF is very shallow with this subject and use of a\the smallest F/stop is needed.Or am I being picky? in marking down for this. |
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10/10/2004 08:20:28 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by kiwinick:
I appreciate that and have taken it on board but out of focus areas in front of the main area seem to distract my eye from the image itself |
Out of focus objects in the foreground don't always work, but they can so it depends on the image whether the OOF foreground is a distraction or just a means of leading the viewer to the emphasized section of the image.
If the OOF forground distracts then the image (in the viewers mind) is not a success. As a suggestion, in these cases maybe try to see what the photographer was trying to emphasize, and if there is enough in the image maybe suggest a different location for the in focus part of the image.
Just my thoughts.
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10/10/2004 09:32:12 PM · #6 |
I think that a shallow dof can work well, or not.
If the dof in a shot works then it's right, if it doesn't work, then it's not right.
I don't think that you can say it should always be one way or another. |
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