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Topic starter May 5, 2023 7:34 am  

Since some thought I was being a Negative Nancy by starting the hindsight thread, for balance, I've created this one. This is for pictures you took that turned out better than you expected.

I wanted to play with focus bracketing and stacking. I was trying to understand the interval settings on the camera. I set up these little plastic boats (3D printer test pieces) on an 8' long granite surface plate. The boats are about an inch across and I set them up 2" apart. (Hence the ruler in the background).

The only thing I was really trying to do was see how the focus intervals progressed, but I ended up with this totally unintentionally fun image

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May 5, 2023 9:35 am  

Ok, let's sum it up : night, rain, wrong aperture settings, and of course, shaky handling.

I was about to delete it in camera...

soulmates circles by pierre lagarde db14kac

 


   
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Topic starter May 6, 2023 3:55 pm  

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I was about to delete it in camera... 

THAT would have been tragic.

 


   
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May 7, 2023 4:46 am  

@bo-gussname Thanks :D


   
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May 8, 2023 1:29 am  

Posted by: @pierre-lagarde
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Ok, let's sum it up : night, rain, wrong aperture settings, and of course, shaky handling.

I was about to delete it in camera...

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night + rain : excellent conditions

wrong aperture setting : really have no clue what f-stop you used, but to me it looks like the right one :D

shaky handling : IBIS / OIS is overrated anyway hehehe ;-) 

Glad you kept it, it's a really interesting photo. When I first started photography I would have ditched this image as well, but if there's one thing I learned in all these years is that these kind of images are often much more interesting than a tack-sharp photo on a sunny day with blue skies ...

 

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May 8, 2023 3:15 am  

@ronaldsmeets Agreed... Still, I think F/16 on an APS-C is too much, most of the time, even in daylight :D 

BTW, I had this result at F/4 and that's what I initially planned (and here lens stab worked well):

soulmates circles 2 by pierre lagarde db1wbkj

 


   
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Topic starter May 8, 2023 7:29 am  

Posted by: @ronaldsmeets
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night + rain : excellent conditions

wrong aperture setting : really have no clue what f-stop you used, but to me it looks like the right one :D

shaky handling : IBIS / OIS is overrated anyway hehehe ;-) 

 

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