Saturday Market

[thistledo]

Decided to take the camera to one of my favourite places... the saturday market, full of scrummy foods. The weather if not raining is very overcast at the moment so light is an issue and i didn't have a tripod. I took the photo F5.6 1/80, could I have chosen a different setting? What would you recommend?



TFL

[jdepould]

Shutter speed and aperture look fine. WB could use a tiny little bit of tweating, I'd probably drop the color temp a little bit. Add some contrast, saturation, maybe some level adjustment. It's a good starting point.

[kirbinster]

I would like it better if you had either shot at a slightly higher or lower F-stop - I say this because the second row of cookies is slightly out of focus and I think it would have been better either sharp or more out of focus. I don't like the middle ground - but that is just my 2 cents worth - which is what you are asking for

[wijew]

i agree with kirbinster, I'd like to have them all in focus too.

[ELAY]

Apart from depth of field, did you experiment with your focal length as well?

Apart from the shot you took, I wonder what a tight shot on one of these pastries, and a backed up shot showing the mountains of delectables on display, would have looked like.

As for the depth of field in the shot you posted, looks to me like you didn't have a lot of flexibility, since you were at f/5.6 and down to 1/80. Did you have any ISO flex? It can be worth boosting your ISO up a bit (even at the cost of an increase in noise) in a situation like this, if it gets you another stop or two -- at f/8 I think most of those pastries would have been in your depth of field, and there are lots of good programs to remove noise if it becomes a problem.

EL

EL

[scrivna]

Hi thistledo,
I hope you dont mind me doing this but i read a tutorial the other day about fixing colour in images that seemed slightly washed out, i put it into the Gimp and had a play, a simple adjustment of the curves and a bit of sharpening gave me this result...

[clockdoc]

I agree with EL. You shot this at ISO 200. ISO 400 would have allowed another full f/stop. If this is a 10.2 megapixel camera, you could have moved farther away, significantly increasing depth of field for the scene as a whole and then cropped it tight for presentation. Alternatively, as EL suggested, a tight shot of one pastry may have been as strong a shot. Time for some coffee and a pastry!

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by jdepould

Shutter speed and aperture look fine. WB could use a tiny little bit of tweating, I'd probably drop the color temp a little bit. Add some contrast, saturation, maybe some level adjustment. It's a good starting point.

Interestingly I'd probably warm the white balance up slightly. I think it would give them a more golden just baked look. Still, looks pretty tasty.

[thistledo]

Wow, thank you all for the suggestions. I would of loved to get more of the tarts in focus or even focusmore on one so thank you Elay and Clockdoc about the ISO suggestion and about moving further away.

Scrivna, thank you for the edit. One of the hardest things I find to judge is saturation/contrast etc or is it down to personal taste?

Right off to the market next saturday to try again and to purchase those yummy tarts too, any excuse