Hi Moose,
I found that bloom in late afternoon, in a shady spot. The exposures I
made were with ISO at 320, resulting in 1/120 at f/4. Stopping down, as
you and Chuck suggest, would have required a much higher ISO, which
brings its own set of problems. And, the background would begin to come
into focus.
I'm happy with my choice.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/13/2014 6:34 PM, Moose wrote:
On 7/13/2014 6:26 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
You took the words right out of my mouth.
:-)
I found it a bit difficult to look at since my eyes want to see focus
in the nearest petal... where it isn't. But bringing focus forward
will only aggravate the shallow depth of field and leave more of the
back out of focus.
I would prefer that. FM does work magic sometimes, but putting the
focal plane in the right place is still best.
Next time try f/5.6 vs. f/4. That will be even more critical if a
modest size print is made vs this very small web image.
I'd say f/8 or even f/11, focused further forward, but not on the
front, so as to use the full DOF. Diffraction softening from f/11 is
both no issue for this size image and generally recoverable in FM.
Depth of Moose
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