Thomas Struth and depth of field

[Struan Gray]

Spent many happy hours in the Pergamon Museum. Nobody stands around like that in that room, unless paid to.

The second shot looks less posed, has what looks like diffuse natural light, and some of the background figures are in fact blurred. That said, Struth has big enough budgets to pay models to look amateurish. Or to take hundreds of shots and keep the least fuzzy.

[Bill_1856]

HC-B it ain't!

[Cor]

Nitpicking here but I find the ceiling window at an angel quite distracting ....

Best,

Cor

Take this photograph taken at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin:

http://content.ngv.vic.gov.au/col-im...PUB000376/1280

[SergeiR]

umm.. wide lens (looking at the maimed shapes) focused at infinity, f16 -22 and bounced flash ?

[Drew Wiley]

The figures look pasted on. It's disconcerting. Methinks some PS fakery, which this school of practice is noted for. Not to my taste. Painters should use real paint.