Dmac wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

I'm not sure I like this or not:
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/edgehill-garden/Nursery/plants&PG=8&PIC=45


Comments?
I think perhaps it needs to be cropped square.

It is not sharp either at 1/100 sec at 200mm with closeup lens, f/7
ISO 800 in the shade. But I guess sharpness isn't the point here.

I'm also not sure what sort of framing/matting treatment to use, it
doesn't look good with the contemporary narrow black wood frame and
white matt that I have used before.


There are a few considerations you might think about. The first is the
shutter speed and focal length. As general rule of thumb... you need
1/125th per 100mm focal length on an SLR to compensate for mirror
shudder. this is of course highly subjective. If you have a very firm
tripod you can safely reduce this. If you had 6 cups of coffee and are
hand holding it you might need to double it! And then there are the
super humans who claim they can hand hold a 300mm lens at 1/60th!!.

Yeah that one was probably shaky. Should work as a smaller print.

Frames... Hmmm. Have you tried the Italian "Driveart" stuff? Myself I
prefer photographic edges rather than frames.

How do you mean 'photographic edges'? Like black corner clips in a photo
album? Can you hang on a wall that way with no glass?

but I agree with Stacey
that the frames you are using, do nothing for your images.

:-(

Not as a web page, but hung on a wall. The black & white ones don't work
with this shot. Isn't this kind of framing common with a couple layers
of colored bevel cut matt board & a wood frame around that?