Phototalk - ask a question or explain stuff about photography

[peteroughton169]

john hancock, how much are you looking for the 70-300vr?

[Albedo]

Don't forget that in the snow you can end up with blues and yellows and unatural snow colours.

 

You can just set your camera to 'snow' in scene mode or spot meter the white balance to the scene itself in manual white balance.

 

I might dig up a link on this if folk are interested, or someone that understands it better might come along and explain.

[Tonythetree]

Don't forget that in the snow you can end up with blues and yellows and unatural snow colours.

 

You can just set your camera to 'snow' in scene mode or spot meter the white balance to the scene itself in manual white balance.

 

I might dig up a link on this if folk are interested, or someone that understands it better might come along and explain.

 

You can also shoot in raw and change the scene mode in photoshop

tony

[RobArb]

took this pic with my new camera (that i'm not supposed to be playing with yet:blushing:) and was playing about with all the settings. Now how can I get ALL the rosehips in focus as I seem to have just the left 2 out of the four in focus... admittedly i have not got a tripod yet which would help, and i did try a few things with the aperture (all helpful hints from this thread) but this was the best i could get it before my fingers froze!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

took this pic with my new camera (that i'm not supposed to be playing with yet:blushing:) and was playing about with all the settings. Now how can I get ALL the rosehips in focus as I seem to have just the left 2 out of the four in focus... admittedly i have not got a tripod yet which would help, and i did try a few things with the aperture (all helpful hints from this thread) but this was the best i could get it before my fingers froze!

 

depth of field is the thing you need here rob, macro imaging is notoriously difficult, and depth of field is difficult to obtain at such close ranges.

 

aperture settings from F8-32 will be what you need, but the "cheat" is to ensure that the most important element, the element that you want the viewer to see is well focused and composed in such a way as to lead the eye to it. failure to compose an image with shallow depth of field will find the viewers eyes roaming in order to "search" for the point of focus.

 

Great images draw the eye and "dictate" and eliminate the eyes natural desire to wander around the seen. its this point that makes those massive landscapes with a distant person in a red jacket so sucsessfull:001_cool:

[John Hancock]

john hancock, how much are you looking for the 70-300vr?

 

Bugger! Sorry i missed this - £250 ish I think

[John Russell]

A static object can stand a longer shutter speed, which then enables you to 'stop down' (use a smaller lens aperture) which in turn produces a wider depth of field (the band in which everything is sharp). The downside is that in this case it would make the background sharper too -- which would mean the rose hips don't stand out as well as you need them to.

 

In a situation like the rose hips you shot here, moving round to your left would have brought the three main rosehips at the front into the same band of focus (that is, they would all have been the same distance from the lens).

 

Different situations call for different solutions but the great thing about digital is you can take the same subject 20 times and just experiment.

 

Best wishes,

 

JR