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Pupp
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141 months
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davidd said: Pupp said: Like the shot of Kings... what vantage point was that from? Thanks, it was from the top of Great St Marys, well worth the £3.50 I spent  Cambridge never fails to present angles 
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Blukoo
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66 months
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GetCarter said: A cunning plan to encourage tourists to use passing places on single track roads. Do you think the police will mind?  Haha, that's genius! Please do it...
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v15ben
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110 months
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One from me with the new 55-250 lens. Taken in Cambodia.  East Mebon. by v15ben, on Flickr
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lloyd h
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2slo
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Waskerley reservoir: 
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andrwb
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13 months
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Reprocessed some old portraits. Maybe they're too contrasty.  D. by Clwn, on Flickr  D. by Clwn, on Flickr  D. by Clwn, on Flickr
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Blukoo
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...Mole...
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Guam
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137 months
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My 6 year old Grandson MR Cool who thinks he is immortal. Holy Terror isnt the word, this kid has no fear <no matter how much we tell him>  Taken at the Sheep fair on Sunday. 
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Guam
15,394 posts
137 months
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And concentrating on catching a floating duck <and anything flying past apparently> 
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IWantAVolvo
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28 months
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Caught the northern lights last night just purely by chance whilst out with a friend! 
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paul911
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102 months
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andrwb said: This one is ace, and could even take some more contrast boosting. Great shot
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2slo
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36 months
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 Smiddy Shaw reservoir
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C2james
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34 months
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andrwb said: Reprocessed some old portraits. Maybe they're too contrasty. D. by Clwn, on Flickr D. by Clwn, on Flickr D. by Clwn, on Flickr hello! /jamesmay
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RobDickinson
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123 months
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Harry Flashman
9,361 posts
111 months
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Rob, would you mind sharing the settings you used for that photo?
I'm having real issues with getting shallow depth of field in camera - and think I might need a ned lens, as the maximum aperture of 3.5 at 15mm on my kit lens doesn't seem to want to isolate. At 42mm zoom, max aperture is 5.6, and similarly depth of field is quite high.
There are two lenses I'm considering to rectify this: a 1.7-20mm, and a 1.8-45mm. IO'd sort of like the latter, but have no idea what the minimum focus distance for the two lenses is (am busy finding out) so that I can attempt the sort of close-up work you managed with those ferns!
Any advice, from anyone posting on this thread, greedily assimilated and used, as always...!
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nre
287 posts
139 months
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Harry Flashman said: Rob, would you mind sharing the settings you used for that photo?
I'm having real issues with getting shallow depth of field in camera - and think I might need a ned lens, as the maximum aperture of 3.5 at 15mm on my kit lens doesn't seem to want to isolate. At 42mm zoom, max aperture is 5.6, and similarly depth of field is quite high.
There are two lenses I'm considering to rectify this: a 1.7-20mm, and a 1.8-45mm. IO'd sort of like the latter, but have no idea what the minimum focus distance for the two lenses is (am busy finding out) so that I can attempt the sort of close-up work you managed with those ferns!
Any advice, from anyone posting on this thread, greedily assimilated and used, as always...! A longer focal length will give you shallower depth of field, with everything else remaining the same, mess about with this online calculator to see how different paramters change the dof. http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.htmlthe exif from Robs photo above shows he used a 400mm at f5.6
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Harry Flashman
9,361 posts
111 months
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nre said: Harry Flashman said: Rob, would you mind sharing the settings you used for that photo?
I'm having real issues with getting shallow depth of field in camera - and think I might need a ned lens, as the maximum aperture of 3.5 at 15mm on my kit lens doesn't seem to want to isolate. At 42mm zoom, max aperture is 5.6, and similarly depth of field is quite high.
There are two lenses I'm considering to rectify this: a 1.7-20mm, and a 1.8-45mm. IO'd sort of like the latter, but have no idea what the minimum focus distance for the two lenses is (am busy finding out) so that I can attempt the sort of close-up work you managed with those ferns!
Any advice, from anyone posting on this thread, greedily assimilated and used, as always...! A longer focal length will give you shallower depth of field, with everything else remaining the same, mess about with this online calculator to see how different paramters change the dof. http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.htmlthe exif from Robs photo above shows he used a 400mm at f5.6 That's great help: and it shows me that the PEN telephoto at 150mm/5.6 will give a shallower DOF than the 45mm/1.8. Very useful, and makes the 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 more what I seem to be after than the 45 1.8. Looks like the 45mm lens will probably be good for portrait photography, as at 6 feet it gives a 0.28 ft DOF: the tel It will probably do better action shots at 45mm than the telephoto, due to the ability to get a faster shutter speed in. But I can get depth of field down to 0.08ft at 6 feet away at 150mm zoom on the telephoto, and I'm more interested in getting photos like Rob's fern one above than sport/action shots. I'm just guessing that light will be more of an issue with the telephoto lens. In reality, I need to try them both before deciding, I guess...
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gingerpaul
2,752 posts
112 months
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Harry Flashman said: That's great help: and it shows me that the PEN telephoto at 150mm/5.6 will give a shallower DOF than the 45mm/1.8. Very useful, and makes the 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 more what I seem to be after than the 45 1.8.
Looks like the 45mm lens will probably be good for portrait photography, as at 6 feet it gives a 0.28 ft DOF: the tel It will probably do better action shots at 45mm than the telephoto, due to the ability to get a faster shutter speed in. But I can get depth of field down to 0.08ft at 6 feet away at 150mm zoom on the telephoto, and I'm more interested in getting photos like Rob's fern one above than sport/action shots. I'm just guessing that light will be more of an issue with the telephoto lens.
In reality, I need to try them both before deciding, I guess... Are you using a micro 4/3rds camera? I used to have the 20mm f/1.7 and it takes really nice pictures. I can pop up a few examples if you're interested.
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PGD5
803 posts
52 months
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That DOF calculator is very interesting, thanks for the link Here's the first shot of my new motor, now I'm pretty much done with the styling mods  My Black NC MX5 by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr
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