AzPicLady wrote:
I like your idea, and the lighting on the subject matter is nice. I like the shell. The sun itself is quite overpowering. And the OOF background is distracting. I did a virtual crop at the top of the first section of dark. It left in the sun reflection closer to the subject but cropped out everything above it. So the over-brilliant sun and reflection and the OOF section were gone. I liked that a lot better. It was a lot more restful to my eyes, and the lesser reflection still gave the evidence of the sun. But that's likely not the image you wanted, so my apologies.
I like your idea, and the lighting on the subject ... (
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Thanks for commenting, I'll have to revisit cropping, hadn't thought about it. I was going to use this in a slideshow at the end for showing the robotics trip and have some text (title) in the sand above the gears. I'll have to see if cropping will still balance with the text.
Meives wrote:
It's an entertaining composition. With F 14 the entire capture should have been in focus. I see the ISO 100 could be upped to 800 and allow a faster shutter speed. The picture is not all in focus. It is artistic and fun.
This is actually a composite of two images. One is for the about the right exposure for the gears and the other for the sunrise. I then blended them together to get the brightness right for the gears. Using a tripod, I could have (should have) used a little smaller aperture to get all in focus. I didn't change it from picture to picture in the two images though. I'm pretty sure that I focused on the gears, when actually I should have focused a little ways out. That would have probably caught all in focus.
Thanks for commenting.
Nightski wrote:
This is a very odd image. The shell is out of focus and has some haloing and weird lighting issues going on. The gears on the other hand are in perfect focus and they are also perfectly clean. How could that be? Some of the water looks long exposure and some of it doesn't. The plane of focus seems inconsistent. The setting sun which grabs much of the attention is out of focus. There are two things grabbing the focus and it's disturbing. It doesn't flow from one thing to the next. I'll give you one thing .. I had to look closer.
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Hmmm, had not noticed detail or lack thereof in the shell. In my first attempt, I left the shell out, but then noticed a footprint about where the shell was and knew I had to do something about it.
The focus or exposure length changes about 1/2 way up. The top being the shortest exposure and the bottom (gears) being the longer exposure, but don't think the water shows much of the long exposure effects. Also, the setting sun was actually a rising sun. The subject of the shot is the gears which represents the fact that we were at a robotics tourney at Myrtle Beach.
Architect1776 wrote:
Looking at it again I really like the out of focus shell and background. All in focus would be horribly boring.
You show the gears are important and the rest secondary.
I do the same in Architecture drawings to give depth and emphasize what is the important feature.
Thanks for looking again.
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