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07/30/2008 09:17:02 AM |
| Just shows how subjective our appreciation of art and photography is - for me, it is the negative space that gives the photo the impact. It somehow reinforces the fragility of the single seed head, almost as a metaphor for the fragility of life in general, and to emphasise the minuteness of an individual life in terms of the wider universe. On a technical note, I might prefer a very slightly wider dof, so that the front of the dandelion head is also in focus, but nonetheless, I like this piece very much. |
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07/30/2008 09:06:15 AM |
dof is typically smaller at closer distances - doesn't have anything directly to do with the camera ... but ... you can jack the D700 up to some pretty high ISO, which would enable you to use narrower apertures ...
The rule is that you get nothing for nothing, and I may be thinking D3 when I talk about high ISO without too much noise, but suck it and see, as you have the camera you lucky bastard :-) |
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07/30/2008 08:52:42 AM |
| I think the focus is just right, but I really don't like the composition - a square crop could improve it a lot. (It's all the negative space to the left - the line of the dandelion 'thingie' leads your eyes to a abrupt blank nothingness! A tighter crop would keep the focus (the non-technical one that is) at the plant itself.) |
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07/30/2008 08:40:36 AM |
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