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Good cop Bad cop
Lately in an effort to understand what and why things work or don't work I've been shooting the same scene two ways for the comparison. Anyone else have some examples?
Do you like one better than the other? Why? Maybe they both fail. I've got impervious shoulders.
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Jim
Great idea!
Just a suggestion, but could you post without the lens information, maybe telling that later in a late followup?
Its embarassing to say you don't like the image made with the pinkham-smith bi-quality ;-)
But honestly, I prefer the first. Plane of sharp focus seems to sit right on top of the driver's headlight at f9. The plane of sharp focus, presuming there is one at f5, for the second image seems to lie in front of the headlight yet behind the grasses, maybe closer to the grasses. Somehow that headlight draws me into the first image, whereas I just sort of drift around the second image without getting engaged. Just my 2 cents..YMMV.
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What kind of gas mileage do you get with that thing? ;)
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I prefer the top one. The car is the subject for me... not the overgrowth in the foreground. Interesting concept, though.
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I prefer the top one, sell me the lens from the second one ;)
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Changing too many variables at a time. You changed the lens, the focus point, and the perspective (or at least the cropping). But... I like the top one best. Like the models eyes to be in focus ;)
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I find the second one way more interesting to look at.
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Top one just looks like a photo of an old truck, bottom one has a slightly sinister mystery quality to it and is much more interesting, also much better separation of
what's in/what's out focus areas. The "truck monster" is in the background lurking to
pounce like a ghost from a childhood dream. It's a metaphor and not just a piece of
machinery. Send me the lens and I will psychoanalyze it too!
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I like the second one better, can't really say why though it just looks more like art.
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I like the first one better. I don't especially care for the OOF rendering in either, but it's less damaging in the first one. I think the placement of the plane of focus also works better in the first one, and the whole hangs together more coherently.