Project 366 2012 Day 320 Natures christmas tree ?

[Heather]

[stevedevil]

mmm, very nearly there in this image, the droplets are stunning, again not sure what the exif are on the image, but a wider lens with harsher dof I feel woulda really pushed this image

[Heather]

couldnt use a wider lens as it was taken with a canon g12

[stevedevil]

Use the tools you have, and with every droplet in focus, in an outside image, where breeze and movement could have given a blur, then its a very good shot, also now seeing Mr Spider in pic left bottom too..

With the shallow DOF on the G12, its hard to get the backdrop away from the image, if you could widen the DOF the image would have punched out more,

But as you mention, G12, so limited to Focus, Aperture and DOF through the zoom..

[Guest]

Use the tools you have, and with every droplet in focus, in an outside image, where breeze and movement could have given a blur, then its a very good shot, also now seeing Mr Spider in pic left bottom too..

With the shallow DOF on the G12, its hard to get the backdrop away from the image, if you could widen the DOF the image would have punched out more,

But as you mention, G12, so limited to Focus, Aperture and DOF through the zoom..

if you widen the DoF then the background becomes more in focus and will distract from foreground wont it?

[stevedevil]

Hi Richard, If you use a wider lense, then the image gains depth, looks a lot deeper than it really is, like when you use a zoom lense, the image compresses..

So if heather had a Wider option, say less than 50mm, then the image would look very deep, then using a low Aperture, say f4 then the image would look a lot deeper..

I use this a lot when shooting B&W images, as if the DOF and focal length is short, the image looks near 3D

[Guest]

exif says it was focal length 12.1mm so well under 50mm but the aperture was f5.6

[stevedevil]

The Exif will be a representation from that camera only :-(

Also the sensor size v lens width will also squeeze the image depth..

I use Full Frame lenses, on a APSC sensor, so some of the width I get is also lost..

[Barbara]

Love it Heather... What an amazing world we live in :)

[KateW]

It took me a moment to work this one out!

Nicely spotted and well taken.

[Heather]

Thanks Ladies :)

[Heather]

It took me a moment to work this one out!

thats why i left the spider in so as to give people a little clue ;)

[Denis]

For what its worth,I also think it is a very good image Heather.

[Heather]

For what its worth,I also think it is a very good image Heather.

thats worth a lot so thankyou ChroNikon :)

[Kobione]

Didn't even spot the spider until I read the comments, very nicely done, Heather, I like! :D

[Heather]

thankyou so much Kobione im glad you like it :)

[Korky]

Now then......

I think if you'd stood on one leg, stuck a finger in your left ear, draped a set of rosary beads over the front of the camera and done one of those cheeky hip wiggles your famous for........ you'd have ruined the shot completely.

Instead, you did the best you could with the tools available and produced a worthwhile image that's very nice indeed. Well done!

Korky

[Heather]

thanks Korky but shhhhhhhhhhhhhh the hip wiggles were just for you ! ;)

[NannyFerret]

It's lovely.

Well spotted, Heather.

[Heather]

thanks nanny glad you like it