In article 2013081817052646882-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
Savageduck wrote:

: Machinery
: http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201279.jpg
: NIKON D3S, 50.0 mm, f/1.4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200
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: 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

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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.

Certainly not. #1 is a good example. I'm not as bothered with it as Rob,
but I can certainly understand and agree with his points.

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.

Huh, yeah maybe. I felt that the DOF separated the train slightly form
the background, but maybe not enough. Maybe it becomes a strange middle
way that's not working as clearly as it could.

#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.

Indeed. But the horizon is hidden far behind and the grad would have
probably affected the engine as well, don't you think? ND grad's are so
cumbersome to work with as well (at least on a casual family trip as
this one). I've never seen a circular one that would fit on the lens
directly, so I haven't used them much. I usually go with a polarizing
filter, but that's not exactly the same effect.

#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.

Well, tastes differ I suppose. I dislike putting subject in the center,
especially people. While I can certainly agree that the composition
could be improved, I rarely end up improving it by centering more on one
specific thing. Showing more of the fountain would have been good,
though.

#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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