Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by pixelpig:
I follow your idea OK, it doesn't come thru in the finished product, alas. It needs more interesting light in the BG, more shadows, less saturation, less subject in FG. You know, you might like to try something out that I enjoy--shooting blind. Line up the focal plane of the camera parallel to the area of the subject you want to be most in focus, without looking at the viewfinder. You can tilt the camera left/right & up/down. Look at the camera, look at the subject, but don't look at the LCD or the viewfinder. The trick is to listen for the sound your camera makes when it's OK to shoot (& know the sound it makes when it's not OK to shoot, too). You can place your camera right on the ground or over your head--lots of places you could never get your eye behind the camera for!

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by icu1965:
I think you achieved the effect you wanted, it does look like an eye view from the ground up. I think that because it's so green and interesting, people want to see more details in that.

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by tpbremer:
I think maybe if your lens was even closer to the foreground plant and we didn't see as much of it your desired effect may have been more readable. Because the plant is so centered it looks like that is the subject and out of focus. However, I think I "got" what you were going for before reading your comments.

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by JuliBoc:
I'm not a great fan of foreground blur(bokeh). This has more than half the image OOF, but it has a nice DOF. I would prefer to see less of the nettle and more of the woods, or have the focus reversed -- sharp nettle and soft woods. Of course that is just my particular taste. Nice color, and overall it makes me feel like a hobbit, or small woodland animal because of the low perspective. And one thing I noticed about the composition: the vertical lines of the trees and the nettle stem cut the image in half and seem to block my ability to enter and explore the image. I'd like to see this same scene from a slightly different position -- moving the camera a little to the right. I think that would allow the nettle to frame the left side of the image, and the trees would be offset to the right third. (or try the opposite, moving a little to the left.)

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by bobonacus:
Thats what I was going for :) I wanted to make the viewer appear that they were looking out from under the Nettle .... I guess it didn't really have the desired effect, lol

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by sulamk:
The focus is a bit off and I am not quite sure which is your focal point!

Day 1: Nettle-eye View
by bobonacus

Comment by k4ffy:
i think you missed the focus, mate! my eye keeps wanting to look at the plant in the foreground but its out of focus. the tree in the back seems to be focused instead.

Silicon Valley
by bobonacus

Comment by Rasai:
... and Park Place.

Caribbean Sunset!!
by bobonacus

Comment by Haneck:
Excellent colors, and interesting textures.

Caribbean Sunset!!
by bobonacus

Comment by martinkulik:
Funny. Nice colors.