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Back into 'safer' territory for me with a close up of some pebbles....
After a search for some flat different coloured pebbles I placed them carefully on a rock and used the sea/beach/seaweed as a b/g ... I feel more comfortable with these kind of shots so enjoyed being sprawled amongst the rocks snapping away to bring Zen to EPZ 
Think Josh had more fun using them as a target practise afterwards lol.
Thank you for viewing and as always C&C welcomed.
Karen
| Title: | ~ Zen ~ |
| Username: | 
KKmoments |
| Uploaded: | 1 Sep 2008 - 7:56 PM |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | Sigma APO 70-300 macro |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Tags: | Beach, Close-up / macro, General, Pebbles, Rocks, Specialist / abstract, Whitby, Zen |
| Votes: | 62 |
Comments
Super image Karen. Nice colours, light and background.
Marilyn x
perfect Zen.....
Harmony.... beautiful karen....!!!!
Nikki !
Hope the Holiday went well...!!!!!
In reply to CSCurry, I have no idea .... no blur/soft focus were added the only adjustments to the RAW file was a slight increase to black & contrast.
Camera was set to AV priority and focus was on the rock. Tech info as follows: Aperture F4, ISO 100, Exposure 1/200, Focal length 120mm.
If anyone can advise why i'd be interested to hear?
Thank you
Karen
good close up the nice texture in the colours, although a little dark, but lightening up would lose the texture somewhat, the focus looks fine,
Quote: Visually this isn't quite making sense.
unusual comment??
the "blur" was prob due to the apeture used F4, G
I kind of like the second to the top stone because I can see some good detail on it. Regardless, this has the perfect amount of light and what a background.
Patrick
Just really weird then Karen.
Can't work out what but given the DOF would be very limited it could be that the millimetres of difference in position are enough to cause the effect and maybe f/4.5 or even f/5.6 would still have blurred the bg enough, but kept all the top stones sharp.
The reason I questioned it was that they appear to be on the same plane and thus you would expect both ends to be sharp (or blurred) but it's not always easy to tell if you were exactly parallell to the stones.
For me personally it is not the blur of the background that jars (as some seem to have interpreted the question) but either end of the individual stones. One end is sharp, the other is not. I just think it would really pop off the screen with a slight adjustment to the settings.
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