Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As you or anyone who studied photography knows traditional table top photography gets full depth of field less so by stopping the lens all the way down to f 64 on a view camera but by tilting the front lens standard down so the plane of focus skims across the tops of your subjects. Otherwise with sheet film you'd never get much of the thing in focus. In the past decade in food photography as in receipt books a style of photography has come in in witch the pix appear to be done with the authors kids or spouses point and shoot wide open. I assume its expense to have a pro photographer be with them for months at at time day and night as the recipes are put together. Its gotten so in many recipe books even real photographers imitate that armature snap shot look with better cameras simply by shooting wide open. But with no flash. If you Google food photography you'll still see plenty of shots with full depth of field as they've always been. On 5/18/13 11:09 AM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > Try googling: food photography, fashion photography and fool photography > ;-) > > a note off the iPad, George > > On May 18, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> Having just contact sheet googled "commercial photography" >> http://tinyurl.com/cyhbh23 >> I'm counting the shots in which everything in the shot is not in perfect >> focus. I'm getting about one out of 6 or 7. The m&m's. And the bottle of >> smart water. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/