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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Sometimes...


...you feel like a nut. I like this image as is but I'm sure there are ways to enhance the message that you creative geniuses can suggest. Thanks! [and have a chuckle while you're at it. That's the intent anyway.]

Sometimes you feel like a... by Keith, on Flickr

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Dec 16, 2015 at 05:09 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Sometimes...


Hi Keith!

Neat shot, now I'm hungry.

I def like the gradual blurring, but I think you've got too much room up top. Can you post the EXIF? I think you might need a bit more DOF to get the entire shucked nut in focus - at least that's what my eyes are looking for. I'd also prefer some more light hitting the face of the nut instead of being more top/three quarter lit.

Cheers!

Jeff



Dec 16, 2015 at 05:28 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Sometimes...


Thanks Jeff. It's f/2.8, 1/125 and ISO 1600. I will re-shoot and move the focus point a touch farther back...you're right I think the back of the nut is a little OOF.

BTW it makes me hungry too!

Try this one:
nuts Ver 2 by Keith, on Flickr

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Dec 16, 2015 at 08:20 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Sometimes...


Almost there!! Still think there is a bit too much on the top and you might want to stop down (or put more distance between the camera and nuts) a bit to increase your focal plane as still looks to be SLIGHTLY too thin. That face of the nut it still nittily (nuttily?) OOF.

Jeff



Dec 16, 2015 at 08:40 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Sometimes...


+1 @ Jeff (but, not the more distance @ perspective change).

Alternatively, you can toss a slight more contrast / usm at your nut, and reduce contrast usm slightly (push / pull) for the global image. The corresponding shells that your nut is resting on are just a tad sharper that they pull us toward them a touch. Will be hard to get your nut sharper @ more dof without getting even more shells with more dof. Just might be a limit yin/yang involved with your dof, that you'll need to finish it with pp.



Dec 16, 2015 at 09:28 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Sometimes...


Thanks Jeff and Kent. I don't want to "zoom" into the single nut too much, as the idea is to show a lone nut in a vast sea of shells. So in that sense I need lots of background space and the nut needs to be look small, i.e. occupy a small part of the image. Version 2 is a cropped and re-processed #1 -- not a re-shoot. I can see that to really do this right I need to move the focus point back a bit and that will be a re-shoot. It's on my things-to-do list!

Thanks much,
keith



Dec 17, 2015 at 07:27 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Sometimes...


+1 @ sea of shells context



Dec 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM





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