[Leica] Namche Market: focal zone

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

vertical images are always less effective on the net ;-)

Thanks for the comment
On 07/01/2007, at 17:33, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Alastair,
>
> My immediate reaction when looking at this shot, before I even read
> this message, was "yes", there is too much that is out of focus.
>
> But it might be because the image fills up my screen and I have to
> scroll to see all of it, and the part that is in focus is what I have
> to scroll to. The screen is first filled with the out of focus part of
> the image. So that _might_ be why I reacted the way I did ... I didn't
> see the image all at once, but only after scrolling.
>
> Sitting at a laptop today.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 1/7/07, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
>> Here is one I was sure was going to be a winner: M6 with the 90 or
>> 135, looking down on the market watching the guy in the foreground go
>> through his sales pitch: the deal is almost done when I took this
>> image: I focused on the "action", but the stupa in the background is
>> therefore out of the range of the DOF. Being white and big, does it
>> draw the eye and destroy the image, ie is the out of focus part too
>> dominant and distracting?
>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/
>> album119/2004Nepal152.jpg.html>
>>
>> http://www.tiny.cc/USQHR
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alastair
>>
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