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Mark Beltran
{K:32612} 5/26/2004
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I agree with what you said. The amount of DOF to use varies. The crop is good, because there is that knot below that kind of breaks the repetition of the rings. It would work if you did crop more off the bottom, but I like that knot.
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 1/6/2004
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Becky,
I like your black and whites for the more graphic and abstract appeal they have over your color images. I too like shallow DOF macros. I wouldn't cut the bottom either - that knot is priceless. Perhaps a square crop that maintains the bottom of the frame and remove the rim of the stump...
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Becky V
{K:9699} 11/21/2003
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Thank you very much, Stefan and Dirck, for your always insightful critiques. :) I agree with you both and perhaps next time I'll try either getting more parallel with the stump, or include more room in the foreground to play with focus.
Thanks for your thoughts - it really is helpful and much appreciated.
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Dirck DuFlon
{K:35779} 11/21/2003
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I don't think I'd crop any more off the bottom, or you'd lose that interesting knot! While I like the short depth of field, too, in my opinion there's maybe too much out of focus at the top. To me, that weighs the photo too much away from the main subject. How about having some of the out-of-focus in front as well as in the back?
I really like the contrast of textures between the smooth blades of grass and the rough wood!
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 11/16/2003
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I think rules are made to be broken :-) An alternative I would have tried with this scene is a camere position lower down to utilize the image space more in favor of the struggling plant, while keeping the out-of-focus log in the image but more compressed vertically (if you know what I mean).
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