Clothespins

[JAS_Photo]

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See page 40, Practical Photography April Edition. They used a 50mm lens wide open at f/1.4.
This is taken with a 35mm lens wide open at f/1.8.

[Bambi]

this picture made me smile! I love the simple lines and colours.

[JAS_Photo]

Thanks, Bambi! I saw the original photo and thought, hey I have those same clothespins! I am going to try that! Lol. I could not get quite the same extent of defocus though.

[Iguanasan]

Nice play here with an interesting simple subject. You say you are comparing yours to theirs. You might want to take a look at the online DOF calculator - Online Depth of Field Calculator (http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html)

What you'll see is that they are more out of focus because maybe they were closer to the subject or maybe they have a different camera - full frame vs crop sensor for example. There's more than just the f-stop involved in DOF which is something I've known for a long time but am only now starting to fully appreciate.

[JAS_Photo]

I focused as closely as I could while still keeping all elements in the photo. It is probably a case of spacing of the clothespins. (They are surprisingly close together)

By the way, I have not seen any announcement about it and no one has mentioned it in any thread I have read, but I noticed a few days ago that you had moderator title now, Iggy! Congrats!

[Bambi]

By the way, I have not seen any announcement about it and no one has mentioned it in any thread I have read, but I noticed a few days ago that you had moderator title now, Iggy! Congrats!

wow, I didn't see this. Congrats Iggy.

I guess I had better behave myself :angel:

[Iguanasan]

Thanks. I'm just helping Marko keep the SPAM at bay. I hope that's the only role I have to perform on this friendly and excellent board. :)

[Marko]

I dig the selective focus here Jas - Nice!