Camelia Bark

This is an ancient Camelia that has grown to the size of a tree. How's the sharpening? Probably hard to evaluate in this small of a jpeg? But I'd still like to hear how you think it looks.

D700, 24-120 @ 120; f 11, 1/20, ISO 400.

Thanks!

Catherine,
I'm not sure this works. The left side seems a little fuzzy and it does look a tad over sharpened. Just not enough interest IMHO.

I see what Erik sees. There is a difference in sharpness between the R and L halves.

What I'm seeing is some lack of sharpness in the LLC and the URC with just a slight loss in the ULC. I do alot of macro work of tree bark and find that one of the most important parts of the setup process is to make sure your camera back/sensor is as parallel to your subject plane as possible. This helps to overcome the lack of DOF that close camera to subject distance and longer focal length provides. I may be wrong but in looking at this it appears you were pointing the lens downward and to the left just slightly which makes attaining max DOF more difficult.

De-lurking post... This looks like two seperate 'trunks' to me. The fuzzy one on the left is simply further away, and thus out of focus. Both trunks are parallel and leaning slightly to the right.

Jason
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Thanks, guys, very much. I love tree bark but have had difficulty getting what I want. Mark W, thanks for the Ah-Hah! moment. I sure appreciate your adding in some great technical advice. I'm excited to go back and try again.

You've posted stuff from Washington Park Arboretum before so I assume you live in the Seattle area? The arboretum is a great place to shoot tree bark; I've spent hours/days there doing just that. Look for the Birch Bark cherry, Paperbark and Snakebark maples, Moosewood (a type of maple), and Stewartia (a camellia relative) just to mention a few. There is a brochure in the Graham Visitors center on Maples that has a brief description and somewhat difficult-to-follow map referring to some of the trees I've mentioned.

Ah yes, Mark, I know the Stewartia, which is a lovely tree and group of trees. I will try to find the others. Thanks again!