I don’t know Alex, the tree is slightly out of focus, unlike your usual stuff. You might have wanted to use a longer lens and a longer focal distance. That would have increased the plane of focus while making a flatter composition overall (then it would really look like a sign coming out of the tree!). I’m loving the greens, though. Spring is pretty great.
lol. I was hoping no one would notice that; good eye, Nils. You’ll notice the darkened trees off to the left are in focus—I had mis-set the auto-focus point on the camera (the 300D has a rather crappy 7 point focus system), and in my haste to grab the picture, forgot to reset to center. There is an option to have the camera automatically find what it thinks you’re trying to focus … but with my kit lens going a bit wonky (ok ok, it’s broken), that doesn’t work too hot. Sooo, normally I shoot with only the center autofocus point.
Someday, I’ll get a lens that works. But in the meantime, I figure I should try to get the best pictures and subject matter I can with a cheap lens—otherwise, I’ll just have really sharp, boring, amateurish pictures taken with a really nice lens. After all, the “father of 35mm photography,” Henri Cartier-Bresson, only shot with 2 unassuming lenses.
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Nils
I don’t know Alex, the tree is slightly out of focus, unlike your usual stuff. You might have wanted to use a longer lens and a longer focal distance. That would have increased the plane of focus while making a flatter composition overall (then it would really look like a sign coming out of the tree!). I’m loving the greens, though. Spring is pretty great.
Alexander Micek
lol. I was hoping no one would notice that; good eye, Nils. You’ll notice the darkened trees off to the left are in focus—I had mis-set the auto-focus point on the camera (the 300D has a rather crappy 7 point focus system), and in my haste to grab the picture, forgot to reset to center. There is an option to have the camera automatically find what it thinks you’re trying to focus … but with my kit lens going a bit wonky (ok ok, it’s broken), that doesn’t work too hot. Sooo, normally I shoot with only the center autofocus point.
Someday, I’ll get a lens that works. But in the meantime, I figure I should try to get the best pictures and subject matter I can with a cheap lens—otherwise, I’ll just have really sharp, boring, amateurish pictures taken with a really nice lens. After all, the “father of 35mm photography,” Henri Cartier-Bresson, only shot with 2 unassuming lenses.