This is a shot I had in my trip to Vietnam early this week. Unaware of the challenge themes, I have a lot of similar shots wih strong silhouettes. This is in Halong Bay, Hai Phung.
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But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field?
"At a fixed aperture, focussing at a greater distance brings more of the foreground and background into the zone of sharpness." quote from National Geographic's Photography Field Guide.
The usual dramatic small DOF of a 50mm @ F1.8 is mostly seen with portraits shot from a relative close range. The focus point here is considerably further away.
Man you are making a run on the D70 page! Give us poor slops a break ;-)
Congratulations on another great photo, I'm sure a blue ribbon is just around the corner.
But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field?
"At a fixed aperture, focussing at a greater distance brings more of the foreground and background into the zone of sharpness." quote from National Geographic's Photography Field Guide.
The usual dramatic small DOF of a 50mm @ F1.8 is mostly seen with portraits shot from a relative close range. The focus point here is considerably further away.
Thank you very much for your comments and your votes. This is a very lucky shot for me. I am not much of a landscape but rather more of a portrait person.
The first night of our package tour to Vietnam was in Halong Bay area. I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and was out in the shores overlooking the Halong Bay at 6:00 a.m. (since breakfast won't be ready until 7:00). I spotted 3 fishing boats. I took plenty of shots (close to 50). I was also using my newly purchased 50 mm. f1.8 lens (per suggestion of dpchallenge members). In the LCD, I wasn't impressed with my shots. I would rather save my children pics so I deleted a lot. But when I downloaded the un-deleted ones in my computer, I was surprised by the clarity of the details and the drama of the early morning mist.
Darcy, I check the exif file again and it was f1.8. Sorry I am not a very technical person so I couldn't answer the question. maybe somemmembers can answer this.
Once again, thank you very much for all the critiques.
But I have to ask, how can your aperature be so large - 1.8 - when your depth of field seems to be so deep. Doesn't a large aperature usually give a shallow depth of field?
Beautiful tone. I really like the composition, having two of them in the frame and including the mountains in the background. Nice foggy atmosphere, really adds a mood to the photo. The rippled reflections are great. It looks like it was taken in Asia, is this librodo?
I hope you get a ribbon with this fantastic shot. I like your placement and the open space to the left definately gives me the feeling of distination. But, it might be a lttle over done. My eye gets kind of distracted by perhaps too much space. Great image. Good luck! 9
Exceptional B&W image. Nice greyscales, lighting and composition. There is a touch of haloing along the sharp edges of the boats but no other digital artifacts. The fog and calmness of the water gives this a haunting richness deserving of a ribbon in this challenge.
Even though the elements do not appear in as sharp focus as I would like to see, your image is very well composed, has natural silhouettes, a subdued and interesting background and nice relfections.
Beautiful choice of subject matter and the morning mist just compliments it perfectly. Composition doesn't work so well for me - because the two boats are not symmetrical anyway I think it would be better to have them as a whole centred within the watery background. Alternatively the extra space would work better for me above and to the right of the boats - perhaps because of the direction of the body of that man with his pole? Still one of my favourites in this challenge.
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