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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Those day's that you wish you had the light to freeze the moment. | |
Focus Locus wrote:
How would a 200 be better? If your shot was any tighter, the story would be lost. Or is the image above already substantially cropped in post?
It isn't the stick blur that bothers me: it's the soft face and head. The fact that the blue shoe appears to be the sharpest point in the shot makes it appear as if the athlete's head was leaned forward out of the narrow plane of focus... but that doesn't necessarily explain why the ball appears more in focus than the head.
This focus issue is of keen interest to me, because I often focus track fast and unpredictably moving athletes by keeping the focus point trained on the largest mass of their bodies that moves the least, which is their trunk, chest, hips, or centers of gravity. Their legs, feet, arms, hands, and head can flail about in a flurry of faster movement, while I keep tracking their core. But that doesn't always work at large apertures.
If their head is out of focus, then the shot is significantly weakened. I find it very difficult to track the head....Show more →
Hello, thanks for the feedback, I also do not realy track on the head, mostly because i can't sellect focus points that can reach the position of the head, so yea, i also mostly have the focus point att the cheast, depending on what sport i shoot i play a little bit with the micro adjustment, i do not know if it realy helps, but i have the feeling it does.
to me the head looks in the DOF in this picture, if i would have shot it att 200mm 2.0 maybe not, that's off course a disatvantage by getting more reach, the slightly blured feeling i think has more to do with the 1/800 shutter speed i used, here you can see a bigger image of the shot: ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/108284954@N04/16280346260/in/set-72157650277373667 )
And yes, the image abouve was allready croped deeply, here you see the original.
and yes, the immage abouve was cropped, here is the origanal one :
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