The thick, out-of-focus stick is distracting, but bringing it into focus doesn't help. It's the thickness of it that makes it seem ungainly among the reeds.
Cheers, Paul Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Thanks for the clarification! > > It's interesting ... that's three comments on this list preferring > more DoF. Comments from other lists haven't mentioned it at all. > > I photographed this scene both at f/3.5 and at f/11 as it was hard to > tell in the viewfinder or LCD which one would do what I wanted: > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/48ba.htm > > To my eye, the deeper DoF loses the dimensionality I was after and > becomes a little too planar. I wished I could have gotten just a > little bit more blur, a little shallower DoF. > > Very interesting what appeals to other eyes... !! :-) > > Thanks for all your comments. > > best, > Godfrey > > On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:40 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > >> Godders - he means the out of focus reed in the background - top right >> bothered me, too. >> >> I liked your little free verse intro , though >> >>> Thank you for your comment. >>> Can you be more specific? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. >>> >>>> Don't care much for the out of focus ones... >>>> >>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/48b.htm > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
