I don't know if the choise of DoF was a good one. I think keeping all the "suns" in focus could bring a better quality. Or rather focusing on the front ones? I'd be glad for any comments.
Hi Joggie, and thanks a lot for your "quick" comment which is lightyears ahead of most one-liners I receive so often! ;-) But seriously, no reason to harry with comments - just take your time and do first things first. I am also in the same running state these days! ;-)
I think you meant the conversion from film to digital, didn't you? This could be quite the truth since back at that time I had much less experiecne and knowledge in scanning. Not that I am an expert now, but back then I was making my very fist steps, and thus of course also many too many mistakes.
Considering only focus, however, the situation on the the original is identical with the situation here. (Unfortunately.) Thanks a bunch for the good hints about what I could have done better. As you describe that, I think I am rather declined to take the first possibility, changing the plane of focus. So, carrying that in mind I'll surely thry this out - and also the second method. The latter will be harder to do, I guess, since I don't think that I have any lens that allows such a wide aperture that is nevessary for an absolutely minimal DoF. But trying out is the only thing that will bring an answer.
There should be a visible range of sharpness and also of stoftness on this one. I think now that it would be better to reverse them, ie. sharp on the near field and softer on the background.
Hi Nick, a uick comment cause I have to run again. Clearly this image suffered a lot through conversion from digital to film - the original must be far superior! In this case i would change my plane of focus slightly (right shoulder closer, left shoulder further from subject) in order to get the flower on the lower left and upper right both in sharp focus, the rest will sot themselves out. Alternatively, use a larger aperture to decrease the DoF and get only the top right flower sharply in focus and create a stronger blur on the front and back flowers, therby concentrating all focus on that one flower. Kind regards. Joggie
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