Spring in the Northeast
Mar 18, 2014 00:43:02 #
April 14, 2013
Cedar Creek County Park, Westmoreland County, PA
7360X4912 cropped to 5277X3995
Nikon D800(E)
Nikkor 105 f2.8
ISO 500
F/11 at 1/60 with tripod
ETTR
JPG 1.1 MB
Background as captured in the field
overcast
minor exposure adjustment, cropping and routine raw adjustments (not highly processed)
Please do not edit image - but feel free to take it if you have a reason.
Cedar Creek County Park, Westmoreland County, PA
7360X4912 cropped to 5277X3995
Nikon D800(E)
Nikkor 105 f2.8
ISO 500
F/11 at 1/60 with tripod
ETTR
JPG 1.1 MB
Background as captured in the field
overcast
minor exposure adjustment, cropping and routine raw adjustments (not highly processed)
Please do not edit image - but feel free to take it if you have a reason.
Mar 18, 2014 07:42:50 #
lightchime wrote:
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It makes a nice small image but it does not really hold up to being enlarged.
Cropping is close to correct, but it's a little too close on top and not close enough on the right.
At f/11, you would not have gained much with a smaller aperture but the camera should have been lined up to get the stem in focus. The background is far enough away that it would have remained as we see it.
There will be plenty more available soon so you should be able to refine your technique.
Mar 18, 2014 08:12:36 #
selmslie wrote:
It makes a nice small image but it does not really hold up to being enlarged.
Cropping is close to correct, but it's a little too close on top and not close enough on the right.
At f/11, you would not have gained much with a smaller aperture but the camera should have been lined up to get the stem in focus. The background is far enough away that it would have remained as we see it.
There will be plenty more available soon so you should be able to refine your technique.
Cropping is close to correct, but it's a little too close on top and not close enough on the right.
At f/11, you would not have gained much with a smaller aperture but the camera should have been lined up to get the stem in focus. The background is far enough away that it would have remained as we see it.
There will be plenty more available soon so you should be able to refine your technique.
Thank you for your thoughts. As you can see, a lot of pixels remain. That is what it is - a small image. For web use, I no longer use high quality images. I simply do not generally make larger JPGs available. Regarding the empty space, I would leave it pretty much the same. I have no intention of reshooting this image. The focus has been defined as I wanted it - only emerging the leaf head in focus. On my image processing monitor, it is very sharp and the colors are as I remember them.
I appreciate your opinions as being valuable, but they are different than my concept. Just an image with no story beyond what you see and no WOW factor desired. A little view of nature emerging.
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