Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/27/2005 11:06:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time, rangefinder@screengang.com writes: Sonny >>I definitely prefer the first picture. There's more scenery, more >>physical depth, more >>atmosphere. And it's sharper - the DOF covers just the right distance from the actors to >>the background (stopped down the Nocti, hmm?).... ============ Yeah, I like the first one best too, but part of the reason for posting the second is to get more cast members in, you see, I send this locally to a subscription list, and many of the drama majors take it. Not stopped down, Just further away from about 40 feet from the actors, so the dof is shallower in the second. ================= >>The composition has slightly too much in the left - the table and chair >>at the right are >>somewhat isolated. Maybe it would be worth trying to crop them off (or to blacken the left >>decor). ============ On my main monitor that I edited this on, the right is darkened a bit more. I set my brightness with this scale: http://www.sonc.com/grayscale/ ========= >>The second picture works less for me. It is less a dynamic situation than in the first one. >>And it's not really sharp (handheld slow time? Nocti wide open?) and the people in the >>background is too unsharp to be sharp but too sharp to be bokeh'ish. ======= Both were wide open. I was trying to catch them all in the same plane, but I did not, and this time I was much closer, in the front row, so I had less dof to work with. Maybe a stop down would have helped. I'm just learning this lens, so I'll probnably have more misses, but I'm kinda proud that they don't necessarily look like Noctilux shots, just do what it does best, see in the dark. btw, shutter speed was in the region of 1/60th handheld. ============ >>The black background is not black enough for me; and there is an ugly outline at the >>borders which probably happened after the resizing (that's why I always crop one pixel at >>each border after resizing). ============ What I said above. On my monitor with the grayscale set to my eye, I don't see the edges. But another crop is a good recommendation. Thanks for the helpful comments. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish