snow on leaves
Dec 15, 2013 19:14:09 #
Country's Mama wrote:
I wish I had read this before I trudged all the way out there again. :-D Thank you for the suggestions. Maybe I will get yet another chance at it if the wind doesn't blow all the snow off.
Country's Mama,
Even if the wind comes up and blows most of the snow off, it will provide a new picture.
Michael G
Dec 15, 2013 20:12:15 #
Armadillo wrote:
Country's Mama,
Even if the wind comes up and blows most of the snow off, it will provide a new picture.
Michael G
Even if the wind comes up and blows most of the snow off, it will provide a new picture.
Michael G
Oh the wind is up. It is a question of if the leaf is protected enough not to lose all it's snow by the time I can get out there. It is always a new picture. The challenge to me is to get the composition right as well as the focus out in the field. I wish I could just bring it all inside where I can play with it. :)
Dec 15, 2013 20:15:09 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
I like this simple composition and don't want to see much color change. The leaves are dead leaves, after all. I applied the "saturated slide film effect" to it in PSE12 to gently enhance the colors, and then added a 15% black vignette to isolate the subject slightly from the background. Very small changes, probably need to download to notice them.
I like it! Not much change, put more punch and still keeps the cold dead of winter look.
Dec 15, 2013 20:43:29 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Oh the wind is up. It is a question of if the leaf is protected enough not to lose all it's snow by the time I can get out there. It is always a new picture. The challenge to me is to get the composition right as well as the focus out in the field. I wish I could just bring it all inside where I can play with it. :)
Country's Mama,
If you have "Live View" on your camera, maybe you can preview the composition before pressing the shutter. If you can press the Preview button next to the lens to manually close down the Aperture to view the DOF and set your HFR with the focus ring.
Michael G
Dec 15, 2013 21:11:31 #
Armadillo wrote:
Country's Mama,
If you have "Live View" on your camera, maybe you can preview the composition before pressing the shutter. If you can press the Preview button next to the lens to manually close down the Aperture to view the DOF and set your HFR with the focus ring.
Michael G
If you have "Live View" on your camera, maybe you can preview the composition before pressing the shutter. If you can press the Preview button next to the lens to manually close down the Aperture to view the DOF and set your HFR with the focus ring.
Michael G
I wish they did. Neither of the two I have have that feature.
I had to look up HFR and I am still not sure I know what it means.
I shot this with a Nikon D3000. I have a D200 but wasn't using it.
Dec 15, 2013 23:16:11 #
Country's Mama wrote:
I like it! Not much change, put more punch and still keeps the cold dead of winter look.
I'm glad you like it. If it's a good photo to start with, small changes are often enough. :-P
Dec 16, 2013 06:27:27 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
I implemented abc1234's suggestions for comparison.
Bob, once again you have done an amazing job of taking an image of a leaf with a little snow on it and pp'd it into a highly polished, visual gem that is interesting to look at, with a heightened sense of drama, as well. Nice job!
Dec 16, 2013 11:32:33 #
Country's Mama wrote:
I wish they did. Neither of the two I have have that feature.
I had to look up HFR and I am still not sure I know what it means.
I shot this with a Nikon D3000. I have a D200 but wasn't using it.
I had to look up HFR and I am still not sure I know what it means.
I shot this with a Nikon D3000. I have a D200 but wasn't using it.
Country's Mama,
Live View, is the ability to preview the picture the lens sees, but on the LCD panel on the back of the camera instead through the tiny glass optical viewfinder.
HFR (Hyper Focal Range) is a direct function of your Depth of Field (DOF). If your DOF for a given Aperture, Focal Length lens, and distance to subject is; 12 inches total, this means you should have 6 inches behind your subject, and 6 inches in front of your subject in acceptable sharp focus.
Knowing your HFR simply means you can use your Auto Focus to make the initial focus setting, turn off Auto Focus, and manually reset the focus ring on the lens to manually change the HFR for the image you are capturing.
For the seed pod you submitted, if your DOF was 12 inches; you could have reset your focus ring to bring the leading stem into sharp focus, and from the bend in the stem onward could have degraded into soft focus, and keep the background in very soft focus.
I cannot comment on your Nikon cameras, I use Canon. So my suggestions may not be applicable to your cameras. On the back of Canon cameras there is a large button to turn on Live View; it raises the mirror used for the optical viewfinder, turns on the LDC Panel, and displays the scene directly from the lens.
Along with Live-view, there are buttons near the top right corner to adjust the magnification, and location of the projected view. These are the same buttons used to view a captured image.
Once you have the desired effect, you turn off Live View, and press ht shutter button to capture the image. This is the same procedure used to capture "Focus Stacked" images for later processing.
Good luck,
Michael G
Dec 16, 2013 14:07:15 #
Armadillo wrote:
Country's Mama, br br Live View, is the ability t... (show quote)
Thank you for the explanation. I think I am going to have to spend some time learning what the DOF is for my different lens and different apertures. I have a general understanding. Such as bigger aperture less DOF. But if you were to ask what my DOF was for my lens at 5.6 I would only be able to tell you it was more shallow than at 16. I have always hated math and this is so much like math. :shock: But it is time to buck up and learn it.
Some day I will have a live view camera.
Dec 16, 2013 14:54:11 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Thank you for the explanation. I think I am going to have to spend some time learning what the DOF is for my different lens and different apertures. I have a general understanding. Such as bigger aperture less DOF. But if you were to ask what my DOF was for my lens at 5.6 I would only be able to tell you it was more shallow than at 16. I have always hated math and this is so much like math. :shock: But it is time to buck up and learn it.
Some day I will have a live view camera.
Some day I will have a live view camera.
Maybe the lens manufacturers will put the Aperture scales, and distance scales back on the lens like we had with 35mm film cameras.
There is an easy experiment you can perform, take a lot of notes, and enter them into your computer for a printout for onsite reference.
The easiest way to do this is to send me a PM request so I can reply directly.
Michael G
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