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Originally Posted by PhotoNewt
Forground subject is a good idea, gives a sense of depth to a landscape. A more interesting subject is needed, usually getting a little closer and lower (the camera taking the picture from the perspective of the foreground subject) works better.
The classical example is a beach scene with a large shell on the sand, while using the wide angle end of your zoom get the camera as close to the shell as possible while keeping it on focus, let the camera focus at infinity to get the rest of the scene and shoot. Put the shell in the right or left lower third of the frame and use it to visually lead the viewer to the distant scene.
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Just wondering if I keep a shell towards the right and focus on infinity wouldn’t one of the two happen a) Shell will get blurred because focus is on infinity ? & b) Incase the shell is still focused wont the aperture come down to F4 perhaps?
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Originally Posted by PhotoNewt
Exposure was a biggie but also the picture appears to have a soft focus which I believe is the result of diffraction - happens when a lens is stopped down to maximum. If you like the effect and is what you intended, then that is OK, otherwise you can shoot at f/4 and get sharper focus and full DoF. Small digital cameras provide lots of DoF at lower apertures than dSLR's.
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Never realized this is possible I though to get a better DOF you had to keep the aperture as near the smallest (F8 being the smallest for my camera ) - what you mentioned a real good to know information – thanks
Regarding softness I believe Sony DSC H2 by standard shoots a bit soft – I have an option to increase the sharpness in setting due you think I should tweak it a bit ? should the tweaking be doen for all photos or only for selected landscape photos ?
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Originally Posted by PhotoNewt
some of us were fortunate enough to have good mentors along the way that helped us grow. That's what I am trying to do for you.
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To be quite honest I really appreciate your interest, patience & effort in trying to rub off some off your immense experience & knowledge to me through the forum.
As you said not having a Mentor is what has caused a big void is in my quest to improve my photography - In my country there are only two kinds of photographer – the majority who are content with snapshots & and wouldn’t care less for the rules (no fault of theirs) ; And the Masters (read professionals) who are a rare commodity ( respectively ) and thus are hard to interact with unless you are learning photography professionally in university or big studios.
Also at least near to my place there are virtually no photography classes being conducted for an average lover of photography.
Hence anything & everything that I know I have learned through my experience , articles, books & ofcourse internet
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Originally Posted by PhotoNewt
Is true that with the auto modes you are bound to get good results most of the time. You can even get great shots sometimes. But if you don't understand why the camera made the exposure choices you have little chance to replicate or control them. The truth is with today's modern cameras I (and most seasoned SLR photographers I know) shoot on program mode (the dSLR semi-auto mode) most of the time - I review the exposure parameters and tweak them only when I need for creative purposes. I use the manual modes on my camera sparingly, about 10-15% of the time.
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Thanks for the tip – I’ll try to use Program mode ( something which I had totally ignored ) more often from now on .