Great set of photos Duke ! Out of interest what that in the middle of the door entrance?
Duke; A smaller aperture on the camer lens will give you greater depth of field and bring the Panther and Building into sharp focus. Another way to achieve greater focal depth is to move the lens back from the subject until both the near and far field of interest is in focus. A wider angle photo will be the result; but than you can crop to size in post processing to cover the subject matter. Your lighting is very good! What camera are you using?
The facial features on these figures are excellent! Kudos to Ken Osen!
Katana,
Yes I use the aperture feature on almost all my photos. The first two photos were taken with the purpose of the foreground being crisp and the background being a little fuzzy.....i.e. taken with a lower f # setting. I think I used f10 or f12 for these photos. I wanted the focus to be on the two figures in the foreground. When I want there to be more of a greater depth of field like the last photo with the Panther out front and to bring the background items like the house and tree into more focus...I change the f setting to a higher # in this case I shot that picture at f29. I believe around f18 f20 gives you a nice balance between foreground focus and background depth of field. One thing to remember, when shooting at a high f setting... you need to make sure you have good lighting AND that you hold the camera extremely steady, preferably on a tripod. Any camera movement will probably lead to a blurry picture. I'm using a Nikon D3000.
Duke; A smaller aperture on the camer lens will give you greater depth of field and bring the Panther and Building into sharp focus. Another way to achieve greater focal depth is to move the lens back from the subject until both the near and far field of interest is in focus. A wider angle photo will be the result; but than you can crop to size in post processing to cover the subject matter. Your lighting is very good! What camera are you using?
There is a balance between blur caused by shallow depth of field and diffraction. Diffraction starts to become noticeable above f/8. You've touched on 2 of the 3 ways to increase your depth of field. The 3rd way is to use a wide angle lens. I generally shoot with a 24-70mm lens and 35mm is a sweet spot along with f/22. I have a D800 and use ISO 100 to ensure a noise free picture. I shoot off a tripod and the average exposure is between 4-6 seconds using my video lights.
Frank
Agreed, these figures look very good and hopefully there will be more in the future. It is very tempting to get into the WB WW2 figures as they fit my budget better. Chris
Agreed, these figures look very good and hopefully there will be more in the future. It is very tempting to get into the WB WW2 figures as they fit my budget better. Chris