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25th February 2016, 11:17 AM #1Moderator
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How to feed an elephant
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25th February 2016, 11:28 AM #2
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Re: How to feed an elephant
and some people think my backgrounds are busy!
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25th February 2016, 11:53 AM #3Moderator
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Re: How to feed an elephant
It's not quite the same thing. You are usually photographing plants and flowers, so isolating the subject is more important in that type of work.
Originally Posted by JBW
and some people think my backgrounds are busy!
In a larger scene, like this one, the background can (and does) lend context to the shot. The other issue is purely technical. On this trip I am shooting a mFT sensor (2.0x crop factor), which is smaller than your Sony APS-C sensor with its 1.5x crop factor; the Panasonic GX7 with a f/4 - 5.6 14-140mm lens. This means I lose two full stops of depth of field versus my full-frame D800. I other words, it's as if I were shooting an f/8 - f/11 28-280mm lens; the depth of field is quite deep and there really isn't much one can do to blur the background with that equipment.
That is one reason I like shooting full-frame, but I simply didn't have enough luggage capacity to carry the bigger camera on this trip.
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25th February 2016, 01:15 PM #4Moderator
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Re: How to feed an elephant
S'pose that's what you call a take-away, or, if you're Scottish, a 'carry out'.
A bit like pulling into McDonald's and collecting to go, really.
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25th February 2016, 02:20 PM #5
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Re: How to feed an elephant
Now that is an ancient front-end loader.
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25th February 2016, 02:42 PM #6
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Re: How to feed an elephant
Nice set.
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26th February 2016, 08:11 AM #7
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Re: How to feed an elephant
I thought elephants eats mango, not palm leaves...but these are good shots .
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26th February 2016, 04:14 PM #8
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Re: How to feed an elephant
Brian, these are real life incidences which are not usually edited for beautification nor you get always chances to take a vantage point offering a less busy background.... but shooting flowers etc is different.... hope you take this in the right sense Originally Posted by JBW
and some people think my backgrounds are busy!
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26th February 2016, 04:14 PM #9
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Re: How to feed an elephant
Excellent images .....
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26th February 2016, 11:55 PM #10
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Re: How to feed an elephant
I know that. I was just teasing Manfred. Originally Posted by Wavelength
Brian, these are real life incidences which are not usually edited for beautification nor you get always chances to take a vantage point offering a less busy background.... but shooting flowers etc is different.... hope you take this in the right sense
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