On 2013-08-18 16:18:46 -0700, Tony Cooper said:

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:06:47 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:

On 18 Aug 2013 13:03:57 GMT, Sandman wrote:
: Blog post:
: http://jonaseklundh.se/pages/Nora12?lang=en
:
:
: My and my family went to the small town of Nora, Sweden to go on a
: real steam train. Very beautiful!
:
: Machinery
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201279.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 50.0 mm, f/1.4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200
:
: Steam
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201280.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 50.0 mm, f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., ISO 200
:
: Old timer
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201281.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 28.0 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec., ISO 320
:
: Fountain
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201282.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 120.0 mm, f/4.0, 1/1600 sec., ISO 320
:
: Water drops
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201283.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 120.0 mm, f/4.0, 1/8000 sec., ISO 1000

Nice shots. I'm a little puzzled, though, by your insistence on such wide
apertures at the inevitable cost in depth of field. (You certainly had plenty
of latitude in the shutter speed.) This is particularly noticeable in the
first picture, where the manufacturer's nameplate could have been sharper.

In the fourth picture I might have tried to show a little more of the fountain
at which the girl was looking. But I guess it would have resulted in an
awkwardly wide image.

Agreed. It's a difficult choice, though. I'd want the water drops to
show what the girl is looking at, but there's not enough of the statue
in the image.

Note that I've not criticized the blown-highlight background in the third
picture. Somebody probably will, but I won't. ;^)

The top of that image really detracts because the lower part of the
image is good. The smoke from the front of the engine is weird. The
problem with the image is that the top left wedge demands attention
and takes it away from what is good.

Yup! I agree, nice shots with some issues. I know that Jonas favors
shooting manual exposure, and I don't think he got everything quite
right here.

I agree with Bob that for some of these the decision to shoot with wide
apertures was not the best of choices. I can see no need to have shot
the first one wide open. I would have wanted more defined detail, not
the shallow DoF shown. The same applies to #2, there seems to be little
point to the shallow DoF.

#3 is a great shot with the exception of the blown upper left. The DoF
is much better with this shot as he didn't push the lens wide open to
f/1.8, but here going to f/4-/f6.3 might have been better. Otherwise,
here is where an ND Grad would have been nice to have handy.

#4 is a great capture with compositional needs. It needs to either show
the full context of the fountain, or it needs to be cropped to isolate
the girl. As it is one asks, is it a shot of the fountain, the girl
relative to the entire fountain, or just the girl. In my mind the girl
is the subject, so make her the subject.

#5 seems to be just an exercise shot. The water drops have been
captured, but I am not particularly taken with this shot.


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Regards,

Savageduck