taken this morning

[Neilmac50]

A few photos from Gordons Bay, South Africa taken this morning for your interest. Neil

[Shadowman]

Nice set, is it my eyes or is that third image OOF?

[Geoff F]

It is focused on the flowers and closest leaves at the top of the scene. Even at F9 the depth of focus is going to be shallow. So the greater part of that shot lies beyond the focus depth.

Possibly cropping closer on the flowers, say 5 x 4 ratio and losing the bottom half, might make it more obvious that this was the intended subject. Alternatively, I suppose it might have been possible to take a couple of shots, or more, at different focus points and combine them. But this needs a tripod, no wind movement on the foliage and suitable editing software.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Geoff, why is f/9 not enough , was the focal length big like 200 mm or something ? I can't see any exif data and a bit confused

It is focused on the flowers and closest leaves at the top of the scene. Even at F9 the depth of focus is going to be shallow. So the greater part of that shot lies beyond the focus depth.

Possibly cropping closer on the flowers, say 5 x 4 ratio and losing the bottom half, might make it more obvious that this was the intended subject. Alternatively, I suppose it might have been possible to take a couple of shots, or more, at different focus points and combine them. But this needs a tripod, no wind movement on the foliage and suitable editing software.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Neil, I like the images

Is the man holding a net in #1 and trying to catch something may be crabs ? I like the flowers in #2, the image is a bit too bright and IMO needs some PP. I like the composition in #3, although there is a focusing issue, the plants are framing the image very nicely

[Geoff F]

From the full Exif information, Binnur, the focus point was 2 metres away which gave an effective depth field of 55 cms. which is quite shallow for the intended scene.

I use this site to recover Exif details.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Just copy the image address and paste into the appropriate box.

[IzzieK]

Hi Neil...I like all of the three images...
The first one I suspect is a fisherman. The combination of the foreground, the middle and the background of clouds is very nice indeed. I like #2 for the flowers-in-three shot. The bokeh looks good too. And the framing of #3 is superb. It looks like a good place to sit down with morning coffee and a newspaper; morning tea with some friends or a quiet time in the afternoon before cooking dinner...