Dec 30, 2010, 12:34
(I do have an ulterior motive for posting this: am posting a small set of examples on cropping over at the "pp and manipulation" area...however in the meantime
This lady was doing as many do for the tourists: preparing or creating her artwork in the amber light of late afternoon. This was taken in San Gimignano, on an archetypal(or cliche'd) sun-flooded Tuscan basking sort of day. I was leaning against a stone parapet, along with several gelato-guzzling touristas who had been glowered at for pointing their photo-snapping-phones in the lady's direction.
The ease of taking this shot was offset by a wee challenge...both features of wideangle shooting:
Easy, as I had bags of depth of field to play with even pre-focusing the lens for the decisive moment...challenging in that it only takes an intake of breath to move away from the perpendicular. This is exacerbated the wider one gets.
Here the Zeiss 21mm is at its optimum: f5.6 and ISO100. As I had no polariser on, and given that there was strong sunlight bouncing all around, this gave me a shutter speed of 1/400s.
The lady actually had a small notice on her parasol, which said "please no foto": I was able to point the lens apparently away from her whilst including her in the frame..but in order to keep the lines straight I had to really point it at her square-on.
This image is a crop, but I was in a dilemma as I took the shot...more about why this was, will be shortly over at the "pp/manipulation" area....
This lady was doing as many do for the tourists: preparing or creating her artwork in the amber light of late afternoon. This was taken in San Gimignano, on an archetypal(or cliche'd) sun-flooded Tuscan basking sort of day. I was leaning against a stone parapet, along with several gelato-guzzling touristas who had been glowered at for pointing their photo-snapping-phones in the lady's direction.
The ease of taking this shot was offset by a wee challenge...both features of wideangle shooting:
Easy, as I had bags of depth of field to play with even pre-focusing the lens for the decisive moment...challenging in that it only takes an intake of breath to move away from the perpendicular. This is exacerbated the wider one gets.
Here the Zeiss 21mm is at its optimum: f5.6 and ISO100. As I had no polariser on, and given that there was strong sunlight bouncing all around, this gave me a shutter speed of 1/400s.
The lady actually had a small notice on her parasol, which said "please no foto": I was able to point the lens apparently away from her whilst including her in the frame..but in order to keep the lines straight I had to really point it at her square-on.
This image is a crop, but I was in a dilemma as I took the shot...more about why this was, will be shortly over at the "pp/manipulation" area....
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