Ragweed! Having such fine seed pods make ragweed an interesting subject when you get a strong focus on them.. and have some shallow depth of field blurring the Evergreens in the...

adlerburg Loc: NY's Capital District

Having such fine seed pods make ragweed an interesting subject when you get a strong focus on them.. and have some shallow depth of field blurring the Evergreens in the background contrasting against the clear focus.
Shot with the Sony A900 w/ Sony 70-400mm G Lens...@ ISO 200, 300mm, 1/500th sec and a B&W Circular Polarized Filter.

Upstate NY Ragweed

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

Beautiful... For some reason I cant seem to get that sharp focus, like yours, when I try for a good photo of these....

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

adlerburg wrote:

Having such fine seed pods make ragweed an interesting subject when you get a strong focus on them.. and have some shallow depth of field blurring the Evergreens in the background contrasting against the clear focus.
Shot with the Sony A900 w/ Sony 70-400mm G Lens...@ ISO 200, 300mm, 1/500th sec and a B&W Circular Polarized Filter.

Here I go again. I love the color and your DOF is just fine. However, and I don't give a damn about the rule of 3rds, the pods are too centered. If you were to enlarge them some more in pp, it probably would not matter. It is nice and tack sharp!

adlerburg Loc: NY's Capital District

tainkc wrote:

quote=adlerburg Having such fine seed pods make r... (show quote)

Perhaps the in focus subjects appear to be too centered because they are the only ones straight up and down? Although I don't work strictly to the rule of 3rds, both in focus subjects are closer to thirds by far than the center.

adlerburg Loc: NY's Capital District

Sherrie wrote:

Beautiful... For some reason I cant seem to get that sharp focus, like yours, when I try for a good photo of these....

I think you probably could if you use my settings as a baseline. The most important setting here for sharpness would be the Shutter Speed at 1/500th of a second. Being that it was almost double the focal length (300mm).. as long as there's strong enough light, and you have some sort of image stabilization in the body or lens... you should get this sharpness.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

adlerburg wrote:

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Yeah, this one is tough because if you cropped it tighter, then you would lose the cool stuff in the background.

Bobber Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas

A small non-photographic detail: while local names for plants can vary considerably, and I can't say what is called ragweed in that neck of the woods, references indicate that ragweed is a broadleaf plant, and those seed pods look more consistant with some grass. Ragweed seed pods appear more like numerous little separated clusters. They remind me of how the seedpods of dock look. But dock is related to buckwheat.

northshore Loc: St. Paul, MN

Bobber wrote:

A small non-photographic detail: while local names for plants can vary considerably, and I can't say what is called ragweed in that neck of the woods, references indicate that ragweed is a broadleaf plant, and those seed pods look more consistant with some grass. Ragweed seed pods appear more like numerous little separated clusters. They remind me of how the seedpods of dock look. But dock is related to buckwheat.

I agree, Bobber-- this looks like a grass. Which one I really can't say, but it is very attractive (much more so than ragweed seed heads).

adlerburg Loc: NY's Capital District

northshore wrote:

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I always called this stuff ragweed. We're plagued with it in the northeast. When you travel down the NJ Turnpike past the Meadowlands, you see 1000's of acres of this stuff. I always thought it was ragweed... perhaps "marshweed"?
Thanks,
Mick

Bobber Loc: Fredericksburg, Texas

adlerburg wrote:

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I passed by some marshy stuff in that part of the country once upon a long time ago. I suspect you are right about it likely being a marsh grass. Grass it certainly is.

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

adlerburg wrote:

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Thanks for that advice.....I am going to try it.