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Challenge: Apple IV (ARCHIVAL) (Standard Editing*)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800
Location: Home
Date: Mar 12, 2021
Aperture: 3.1
ISO: 188
Shutter: 1/4
Date Uploaded: Mar 13, 2021

 Apples come in lots of colors. Sometimes they have multiple colors in a single example.

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 04/01/2021 10:17:43 PM
Originally posted by glad2badad:
This was a tough choice on where to go with DOF. If you had attempted to go all in and get everything in focus it would have been a challenge (maybe back up, crank the aperture down a bit, then crop?). However, then your backdrop and area that the apples are sitting on would have been distracting (looks wet and maybe a bit dirty). I think the shallow DOF works fine and perhaps if the front stem had been the key focal plane it would have helped the overall presentation?

Just thinking out loud ...


Thanks! The surface is actually marble so I was trying to avoid getting too much of the grain/pattern. I vacillated between focusing on the front of the first apple or in between the two middle apples. In the end, I went for the spot behind the front stem. The shallow DOF helped with the pattern on the counter.

Most of my photography experience was as a school photo editor doing sports or doing snapshots while in the military. The only "studio" shooting I did was animal portraits. I've been playing with cameras since 1959 (a Kodak Holiday Brownie) then a Graflex Jet 35 mm (1962) Used that until I got my first digital camera. The one I'm using now i've had about 15 years. There were, of course, 4x5 cameras and 120 roll cameras along them way.

Again, thanks for the feedback. It's the sort of thing I need.

Message edited by author 2021-04-01 22:33:44.
 04/01/2021 09:41:32 PM
This was a tough choice on where to go with DOF. If you had attempted to go all in and get everything in focus it would have been a challenge (maybe back up, crank the aperture down a bit, then crop?). However, then your backdrop and area that the apples are sitting on would have been distracting (looks wet and maybe a bit dirty). I think the shallow DOF works fine and perhaps if the front stem had been the key focal plane it would have helped the overall presentation?

Just thinking out loud ...
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