5 In A Row - David Storm

davidstorm · 2014-09-01T20:53:20+0100

Hi everyone, David Trout has kindly asked me to be the 'five in a row' person this week, so I will be putting up for your critique five of my shots. To me, this is all about pushing the limits a bit and provoking some thought and comment, so you will not necessarily be seeing my 'normal output'. I may put a couple on that you would recognise as mine, but I will also try to give you some that are a bit different. So, here goes, the first image tonight, that I am fully expecting will get an absolute slating from you!! I will do my best to explain the thought process behind each shot. 1. Focussing on the little things whilst still seeing the wider picture A lot of you will know that I like my macro! I take a lot of 'bug' shots with all manner of lenses, of late the DA*300 with or without tubes or Teleconverter has been my preferred weapon. I also do a lot with proper macro lenses or 50mm primes on tubes and then there's the butchered zoom! This one is different, it's shot with the Sigma 17-70 F2.8-4 HSM OS which focusses amazingly close for a mid-range zoom. For this shot I deliberately opened it up to max aperture and widest zoom and got as close as possible to the main subject, which is a Greenbottle fly on Chicken Poo! The result is wafer thin DOF and our garden (complete with Tibetan Terrier) in the OOF background, hence the rather long title of this image.

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johnriley johnriley

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Posted 06/09/2014 - 17:01 Link

The sky is a bit odd looking I think.

Best regards, John

davidstorm davidstorm

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Posted 06/09/2014 - 19:11 Link

Thank you to everyone for your input on this thread, as mentioned it is 'Autumnlight's' turn next week, I'm sure we are all looking forward to Maria's five images.

Regards
David

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