Okay, so I thought it was funny. I had to lie down in gravel to get this shot, that oughta be worth a point or two -- ouchie.
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I wanted to be able to get a deep enough dof so that it was all in focus, but alas, it was not possible on this go around. I am not sure it is possible at all. . .:(
IF this were advanced editing, I would have cloned around the tire to make the edge a bit more continuous. AND would have gotten rid of the guide wires.
Set up (If anyone cares) I made a little pile of gravel and stuck a nail in it. Then, I propped the lens cap on the nail. Laid down (gravel, I remind you) and lined everything up so it [supposed to anyway] looked like the lens cap was the tire.
Will probably bomb (nothing new for me), but maybe will garner a chuckle or two -- from nikon users.
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GREAT dedication to your craft, fellow Jeep-owner! Kudos from me. Regarding "tripod not going low enough", even if you HAD a Manfrotto with a reversible center column, you'd still have been laying in the gravel :-) It's shots like this where tilt-screen LCD P&S cams ROCK! I mis my 5700 sometimes when I try to get my old bones low...
Clever! If this was onsite, maybe you could have picked a location without the wires in the background? If using a computer monitor picture, you could have cloned those out.
Cool idea. I like this one. I am assuming that lens cap is propped up against those rocks. Nice going. Good use of DOF I think. It seems like the lens cap should be out of focus as well, but being in focus brings attention to it, so nice going.
Very clever! I like this. I am guessing that you had your aperature at about F4.5 or 5.6? I would have liked to see the Jeep in better focus. I wonder how it would have looked with your aperature stopped all the way down to F18 or 22. Overall a good photo!
The problem being the car is out of focus while the lens cap is in focus. Solution would be to photograph just the car and print it, then put the cap on the photo and reshoot. Not a literal interpretation, so it would pass the rules.
Would have been better if you used a smaller apature so the vehicle is also in focus. Having the lens cap look like part of the vehicle and yet it be the only thing in focus is sorta odd.
I give it a 6 mostly for creativity
Very cute. The depth of field gives the secret away. The lenscap is sharp, like the rocks, and the focus on the vehicle is soft. A smaller f/stop would have made this more realistic.
Gotta question your DOF choice on this one, this just simply doesn´t convey that the lenscap is the hubcap since it´s in focus and the car not... Good idea, poor execution... Got a 5 from me.
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