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
Ok, let's sum it up : night, rain, wrong aperture settings, and of course, shaky handling.
I was about to delete it in camera...
Ok, let's sum it up : night, rain, wrong aperture settings, and of course, shaky handling.
I was about to delete it in camera...
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 ...
@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):
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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