Fall Stream

Gallery: LandscapePosted November 5, 2011309 views5 comments

This fall I was experimenting with my telephoto lens to take landscape images with a shallow DOF. It seems that usually landscape images are taken with as much DOF as possible, but I wondered if a shallow DOF could be effective.

This was the image I liked the most from my experimenting. I would love to know if you think this works or not.

Canon 5D
300mm f/4L IS
1/500, f/5.6, ISO 400
10-24-2011, 10:26am

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on November 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM

I like this very much. The restful appearance of the surrounding woods works real well with the in focus trees.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on November 5, 2011 at 4:40 PM

This works pretty well. Sort of wish the in-focus trunks were a bit visually, maybe in size or interest, relative to the oof features. Still, this has an unexpected appeal.

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on November 5, 2011 at 11:39 PM

Carol, I like the DOF you chose here. Though I wish I could either see more of the fall color on the left of the foreground trees or less. Nice image.

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Comment posted by David Chauvin on November 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM

I like the idea behind this image and I really like the soft muted colors, but I do wish the in focus part of the image carried more weight or stood out more prominently.

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Comment posted by Adrian Klein on November 6, 2011 at 2:34 PM

Nice tranquil scene Carol. Although I don't believe every scene in nature photography today needs to be in-focus from top to bottom I do see what others are saying about this image. In this case I would prefer to see the image in focus throughout. Keep experimenting though, that is always a good thing!

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