Dennis, I really like your fence shot, the white crosses really “pop,” you got the lighting just right. Of course, every time I see an image like this (or make one myself) I think of Paul Strand’s white fence.
Dennis, I really like your fence shot, the white crosses really “pop,” you got the lighting just right. Of course, every time I see an image like this (or make one myself) I think of Paul Strand’s white fence.
Dennis doesn't seem to come around here anymore, but he does wonderful work. I sleuthed him out, not that it was all that hard!
Dennis Dilmaghani
The old receding fence line trick. That's Canal Rocks in Western Australia in the background.
Tachihara, 6x12 RFH, 90/4.5 Nikkor
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There are three major object plane angles in my image...the foreground fence which goes to the left, the building wall - congruent to the first mentioned plane but at a different distance, and the fence section starting at the right and ending at the building. The lawn is yet another plane, which I consider to be less important here. The roof is yet another...which does not worry me at all as it is dark, plus not so challenging as the lawn.
I took this photo a number of years ago...but looking at it now, I can imagine that I'd first want to swing the front (or rear) to establish focus of both the extreme right fence post and the extreme left of the building in this image - then swing back from this, so that now the fourth post from the right (of the fence running to the building) would be in focus, and pull back a bit so the extreme right of the building is now just a bit fuzzy. Then, I'd want to tilt the lens down...just a bit, to attempt to accommodate the roof plane, which would bring this plane forward to bisect the front-left fence at about 1/4 up from the bottom of the frame.
Then I'd stop down quite a bit. Likely to right between f/32 and f/45. A bit risky with such a short(ish) FL - I'm also almost certain that I went right to a red filter for this image...which would help restore some of the apparent sharpness which may have otherwise been lost to diffraction.
Do keep in mind that the two aspects in my favor are...One - I'm using a 90mm lens, so visible DOF will tend to fall off a bit less than it would with a longer FL. And two - the right side of the building and the right side of the fence are in pretty deep shadow...which gives me an opportunity to be more "neglectful" of those areas, focus-wise - making my task a bit easier. If you look closely at these shadow areas, they are indeed just a bit fuzzier than the brighter parts.
At any rate...lots of little compromises here and there - but I do think I pulled it off (just barely!).
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