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flute selective focus ihc 135
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Capture This Photography on Tue, 31/01/2012 - 20:45
Capture This Photography on Tue, 31/01/2012 - 20:45
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My old flute.
My old flute.
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Great shot, looks very effective viewed large.
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Fabulous Photograph I love the way it just comes in and out of focus.The question is can you play the Flute?
Great Entry Good luck
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Brian
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Thanks Brian. The answer to your question is...sort of. I played from the age of 9 but didn't continue seriously once I got to high school. I don't think I was ever very good. My kids are the ones with the talent. All of them play instruments, 2 of them very seriously and are music majors at Universities and Russell who is about to graduate started when I taught him what I knew on the flute. His primary instrument is the bassoon.
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A splendidly narrow depth of focus. It works very well. I presume you used a very low f number, but did you also need a special lens?
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew. I used a 60mm macro @ f/4.5 for this. The DOF with that lens is very tight even at very small apertures. For example this one was shot @ f/22 with the same lens:
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Beautifully narrow band of focus, Laurie ... works really well with the flute
(...I tried a couple on a trumpet, & a mandolin but the flower worked better)
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Couldn't get a much better example - great shot !
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Superb shot Laurie, everyone has said it all..you really are a mistress(master) of your art...Brilliant
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Sure got a narrow focus there! Can you do the opposite and do super macros with wide DOF? I would love to be able to do mega-close-ups of insects and have tried using bellows but the extremely narrow DOF ruins the shots. I have seen some insect pictures where the whole thing seems to be in focus but I don't know how it's done.
Graham Dicker
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Hi Graham. The lens I used is razor thin DOF at pretty much any setting. There is a technique for doing macros called focus stacking. I have not tried it because I am not much for doing computer editing in general, but as I understand it you need to take several images progressively focusing on different parts of the subject being careful not to move the camera or the subject...my guess is focusing rails would be very handy for this kind of technique. After you take the shots you then blend them together using software...again I am not sure how it is done. I am sure there are people here who could tell you or even googling focus stacking will probably yield lots of results.
The flute image was shot with the Nikon 60mm f/2.8 macro at f/4.5 but as you can see below the DOF remains very thin even at f/14 with the same lens:
Laurie
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Thanks Laurie. Funny you should mention photo stacking; I actually came across photo stacking some time last year and downloaded some free software but never managed to get it to work. I had totally forgotten about it until I read your post. I must resurrect it and have another go.
Graham Dicker
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A great shot Laurie and thanks for all the tips you give us.
Ann Noden
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A fabulous shot, defiinitely one of my favourites. A perfect example.
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A superb example Laurie, Very well done.
Carl.
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