Sunflower

[Siggie]

Did u use autofocus? the aperture settings seem to be enough.. and how far were you.. were you zoomed in????? because, it seems tha camara did a fine job at focusing, but not the whole item.. just the petals, and the rest might as wel be a backround.. though its unusual if this is auto focus, because sutofocus focuses in the general middle area.. not the left.. ... try closing the shutter eye a little more, and loner exposure.. .. that would help to get a complete focus, but beware, it may be underexposed.

What are you talking about?
I was about 10-12 inches away. I manually focused and the whole thing looks in focus to me. The depth of field was not shallow enough for the petals to be in focus and not the center. So out of focus it may as well be background?
Shutterspeed has nothing to do with focus unless it's long and you or the subject moves. A longer exposure would result in overexposing, not under. The exposure is fine.
Thank you for the input, but I don't think it's out of focus.

[Siggie]

Their great Siggie. They are beautiful..NOW I want to post my art work. But no no I'm to shy....besides I dont think they are that great.

Thank you.

Don't be silly. Post them!

[gevo]

What are you talking about?
I was about 10-12 inches away. I manually focused and the whole thing looks in focus to me. The depth of field was not shallow enough for the petals to be in focus and not the center. So out of focus it may as well be background?
Shutterspeed has nothing to do with focus unless it's long and you or the subject moves. A longer exposure would result in overexposing, not under. The exposure is fine.
Thank you for the input, but I don't think it's out of focus.

UHUMM>>> ok.. lol.. i dotn think you know what im talkign about... obviously.. .. if you set the apeture lower and lower, this limits the amount of light that is able to pass through the shutter, thus requiring a longer exposure to no underexpose the shot. becuase you need more light to pass through the smaller opening.... and, you are not in complete focus, 10 12 inches is fine for a 35 mm, is that what your using? the current exposure is fine, the only thing is th focus, now unless my eyes are playign tricks on me, the laft of the figure is sharp (focuses) and the parts of the figure which are at a different depth in respect to the petals are not as much in focus.. its not a problem.. the image is still fine.. but it caught my eye.. ...
ps: my photo professor was very fond of my work. I kinda know what im talkign about.

[XxgoeyxX]

Thank you.

Don't be silly. Post them!

Hehehe...I will once I take photos of them......

[Siggie]

UHUMM>>> ok.. lol.. i dotn think you know what im talkign about... obviously.. .. if you set the apeture lower and lower, this limits the amount of light that is able to pass through the shutter, thus requiring a longer exposure to no underexpose the shot. becuase you need more light to pass through the smaller opening.... and, you are not in complete focus, 10 12 inches is fine for a 35 mm, is that what your using? the current exposure is fine, the only thing is th focus, now unless my eyes are playign tricks on me, the laft of the figure is sharp (focuses) and the parts of the figure which are at a different depth in respect to the petals are not as much in focus.. its not a problem.. the image is still fine.. but it caught my eye.. ...
ps: my photo professor was very fond of my work. I kinda know what im talkign about.

Thank you for the photo lesson. I know that stuff. I didn't realize apeture has been renamed "shutter eye". We'd already discussed apeture and I told you I was set between 22 and 32. It was shot at about 12 inches from the flower with a macro lens 1:1 reproduction. The focus looks okay to me and my photo professors have been fond of my work too.

[Siggie]

Here are a couple shots from the Praying Mantis Photo Shoot





The apeture was at 2.8, largest setting, because I didn't have a tripod and it was dark. I'm aware that not all parts of the mantis are in focus. I just thought it looked funny, so I whipped out my camera.

[ckBejug]

Are you guys talking about the first or second picture in the very first sunflower pics post?


Oh dear, that praying mantis is super creepy. How did you get it to stand still long enough to take pictures?! How did you manage to stay that close to that thing??

[XxgoeyxX]

You know your sunflowers remind me of my flower prints. I did a lot of those last semester. And I must add..again...beautiful. What was your reason for taking pictures of the sunflower. I mean the aesthetic of the piece. Or was it just point and shoot. Im sure there is some kind of meaning of what you photography.

[clubbin714]

Yes I would buy either of the first 2 sunflower pics. Can you get them framed? Do you accept paypal?

[ckBejug]

Speaking of flowers... here is a picture from when I went to Canada.