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Photographing Flowers

Sue Bishop is one of the foremost flower photographers in the UK and with Charlie Waite was a founder of Light and Land. In this well written book she shares some of her techniques and gives advice on many topics including equipment, lighting, depth of field, the colour circle and more. The book contains many stunning photographs as well as a number of case studies illustrating the techniques used. I was a little disappointed that studio lighting was not covered but on the whole I'd recommend...

The Complete Idiots Guide to Digital Photography

Yet another book on Digital Photography, now in its second edition, and with the Idiots guide title youll either be embarrassed to be seen with it or wont mind, knowing that youre sure to find help as you enter into this type of photography. Its written by an experienced American professional photographer and starts with an unnecessary six-page intro of the history of photography! Then it covers the benefits and disadvantages of digital along with who will find a digital camera useful. Here it p...

Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age

Light and Lens takes you through an educational photographic journey. The author writes with obvious in depth knowledge about the various aspects of photography with the intention of helping you understand the visualisation of the art rather then just providing a how to book. It touches on history and has a section of thought provoking questions with answers. Every aspect from exposure to printing is covered, and there are some really clear diagrams to help you get your head around topics such a...

Better Picture Guide to: Portrait Photography

You may think the cover portrait is a tad dull and uninspiring (the repro of this image has more contrast on the inside version), but open this 128 page book and you'll find far better examples inside. The author, David Wilson, aims to introduce amateurs and semi-professionals to the varied world of portraiture. It covers techniques to improve composition, rapport, exposure, lighting and much more. the book includes extended captions of around 200 words per picture that are tips and technique...

Better Picture Guide to: Photographing Nudes

Great soft focus image on the cover that, being a bloke, makes you want to pick it up and look further. If you're interested in the female form you'll love this book. But the point of the book is to give you advice and inspiration to master composition, lighting and exposure when photograph the nude. Question is...will it? Once again there's RotoVision's jerky text style that can halt the reading process, but I'm currently absorb by a fascinating collection of beautiful women...naked... so th...

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How can it be considered cheating? Like the hilariously funny thread about HDR, ANY technique to strengthen the impact of an image is just that - a technique... And it all started with Fox-Talbot!!! Ever since the Ab Initio days, photographers has sought to enhance their work!!! Can we close BOTH threads now please!! Why the heck shouldn't we discuss these things?! Some of us are n...

Thanks for the link conrad :) might be a little less confused now.

A lot of creative focus is waaay overdone IMHO. It doesn't need an awful lot of blur to make your intended object of attention the only one the viewer looks at. The eye is drawn naturally to the sharpest point of the image, especially if it has lead lines or is on a point of thirds. OK theres a problem if you have glaring highlights - but then that's your fault for not composing better ;)

Depth of field is a very complex thing. Basically any lens produces a totally sharp image with zones in front and behind the sharp image which appear to be sharp. Note the word appears to be!!. The area that appears to be in focus is dependant on the focal length of the lens and the amount by which the image can go out of focus before the human eye can detect it . A totally sharp image of a po...

That lens is not competable totally so not a camera problem it is the sub standrad lens.

Another thought.. since you are on about macro photography, lay out a flat ruler and photograph that at various apertures.. that'll give you a better idea of dof and distances that are involved. Also when looking at near and far dof the usual maxim is that dof is 1/3 in front and 2/3 behind the point of focus. In macro photography however dof extends more like 1/2 in front and 1/2 half behin...

I was not being argumentative Stan, just making a valid point, that may not be appreciated by beginners. We are not all 'experts' on this site. One further point ;o) It's not much use being awash with theory and technical jargon if you can't see or compose a picture. PS Who mentioned Aston Martins? Didn't know they made cameras ;o)

Sensia as good as Provia- very little between then, - as good as Velvia- no, but I want the extra stop. Once you take price and handiness into the equation there is no contest. That lens does sound good value, but check around the other main shops in town before buying. If any shop has a sigma 70-300 apo for a similar price give it serious consideration too. (try them on the camera, the Sigma ...

Thanks for all the replies. I have a Pentax MZ6 which allows full manual control, so I'll line up a few objects and have a play as durlstonp suggests. I have experimented before, but the objects within the view were all on a similar plane so I guess I wouldn't have seen much even if I knew what I was looking for. G

Perhaps it helps someone: the depth mask (pdf) lens blur simple one

As a point of interest on the preceding: The fuji S602Z has a 5 bladed iris diaphram. It can be clearly seen at max zoom setting and to open and close as it pointed to and from a bright light source in the auto mode. jas

I think that's more of a rule of thumb than carved in stone - and I also think it depends on which lens you are talking about as well

Thanks Guys.

Hi You have got me thinking now. I think it was MINOLTA who introduced an attachment for their telephoto lens`s to turn it into a telescope. I do not think it would be to much trouble to make an attachment to fit to an old say prime lens that has a good distance scale on the barrel. you just look thru, turn the focus ring till the split image or microprism aligns up, then read the distance....

Thats interesting, the Sigma supplied tables that I got use 0.0333 and the ones I created used 0.03 based on Big Bri's formula. This assumes 35mm, or course!

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