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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
What an interesting choice of subject. I appreciate here how you have tried to give us a different look at what in some households, may be a common thing. I do like the composition and color contained within the image, but find that the impact of the image is lost since so little of it is in focus. I think that you said that this image was the result of focus-stacking (if that is what you meant by "Stacked Focus"), but like Janos, I find it a bit confusing as to why then, so much of the image is 'out of focus'. Was this image sharp enough to your eye?
If you did not use the focus stacking technique, but tried to rely upon a "stopped down" or small aperture (such as f/26) to provide an acceptable depth of field, then I think that you have discovered that in magnified images (such as those we strive to collect in macro photography), reducing the aperture is less (or not) effective in increasing the depth-of-field. That is why we often need to try other techniques (such as focus stacking) to give us sharp magnified images.
I would be interested in hearing more of your thoughts as you generated and submitted this image.
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Mar 26th |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This is a masterpiece. The simplicity of the subject and it's presentation is very powerful. You given us a subject with form color and dimension, and it's reflection to magnify the impact. I especially am enjoying how the interior of the butter form is deeper and richer than that of the outer edges. The reflection also provides a sense of symmetry sharply defined against the dark background. Wonderfully seen and captured.
You could have stacked the image to bring all of it is sharp focus as Janos suggested, but at the risk of loosing a sense of dimension and depth (see my discussion of Oscar's image this month). I like your choice here in regard to this point.
Simple, yet powerful. A great example of how "less can be more". |
Mar 26th |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
This was a great choice of subjects for your first stacking effort. I especially like how you chose to use stacking to bring most of the subject into focus while letting other parts of the image to blur out, imparting a sense of distance and dimension to your image. Nicely done.
In stacking we often sacrifice the ability to allow the blurring of the background, something common to most other types of photography. We interpret the blurring of the background to be a result of the distance parts of the subject is from us, and therefore a sense of dimension within the image. Lack of this often results in a "flat looking" image. Because of this, we need to try other things to back as sense of dimension. I often will select the background of a stacked image and blur and/or darken it some to accomplish this. You used another technique, that being the use of a partial stack. Kudos to the foresight and effort.
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Mar 26th |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Interesting and imaginative choice of subjects. I choosing so, you have given us an interesting contrast in the blurred flame and the sharpness of the burner. One minor point. I find that I my eye keep snapping to the dark rust (?) spots on the lower left part of the burner, and away from the blue flame. While giving us some of the textured wear of the burner was intentional and effective, making this a predominant part of the image (which the dark spots does) detracts some from the entire image. Its soooo hard to see this kind of thing in our own images since we become so used to seeing the images as we develop the shot to completion. |
Mar 26th |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Comment |
Here you have given us a nice sharp image will lots of wonderful color and texture. I like how the curved sweep of the beaded bracelet adds a nice frame to the composition, although personally I would have included a bit more of the curved bracelet, ensuring that the bracelet was not cut off on the right hand side. I do think that the image as a whole is a bit busy with the color and sharp texture of the background yarn competing with the beaded bracelet for prominence. Since there is so much going on, its hard to stay focused upon the story here, which I think was the bracelet. We get so focused (if you would pardon the pun) on getting everything in focus, that it's easy to lose sight of the overall picture. In macro often the simpler the composition, the more the impact the composition may have. |
Mar 26th |
| 65 |
Mar 19 |
Reply |
Not real sure. Part is due to the fact that I am pushing this image a bit to get as much as possible from it (in terms of sharpness) and part is due to the reduced resolution we are forced to use in submitting these images.
Normally I would apply a noise reduction correction to this part of the image. Since noise reduction often also results in a slight blurring as well, this would smooth out the background some.
Nice catch ! |
Mar 26th |
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