I love photographing in the woodlands. It offers the greatest variety of possibilities for you to make the picture want. Meaning if you want to blur the foreground or the background, then do it. I think there is no fixed aperture for the woodland, and in your conclusions I think you come to that point. The picture is in the eye of the beholder. Have you tried "focus stacking"? The camera takes a series of pictures from foreground to the background and then you stitch them together on the computer. The resulting picture is quite amazing. Sadly my camera can't do this. Please keep making these videos. I admire what you are doing. Keep up the GREAT work! Cheers from British Columbia Canada!
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I agree with what you say but I wanted to see the consequences. There are few rules in photography and the settings are what gives you the image you want. I feel for me if there is a specific subject I would go wide open but ultimately the composition dictates. I have tried focus staking, though manually, as my camera is too old to do it for me. The problem I find is photoshop is sometime not good at blending them and manual intervention is needed.
I am not much of a woodland photographer mainly because I have yet to "see" a subject that I could capture a descent composition. The images that are most appealing from others all have a distinct separation from the subject and the background whether that be to just a less cluttered scene or a fog that disguises or completely hides the clutter, and great lighting conditions is always a plus. I envy and applaud those that put in way more effort than I do to accomplish the feat of capturing pleasing woodland scenes. Thanks for sharing
I liked the photo of the dead tree and the last one with the path. However on the last one, as you said, the light was not consistent. Looking at the images on the IPad screen it was quite hard to be sure of the clarity anyway. Probably much easier to determine an opinion on a big PC screen.
I think the answer to your question is that it will vary according to the subject. If you were photographing a single leaf on a branch then you'd probably open the lens and blur out the background, whereas for a scene like your first composition you'd close it down to capture everything sharp. I liked the second image, but the processing jarred - there was no need to de-saturate so hard - just back the luminosity of the greens off a bit and you'd have been fine. The dead tree I'd have ignored - the sky is just too distracting - and the hanging branch tree again I'd have cut the sky out of the frame. You can't just pull the highlights back because all the software will do is turn them grey. I've wombled through Ashness woods many times - the walk down to Watendlath Beck is lovely in the autumn, and if you carry straight on over the Beck then you can get to Shepherds Crag which is another lovely spot. I'm back in your area in a couple of weeks time and very much looking forward to it.
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I love photographing in the woodlands. It offers the greatest variety of possibilities for you to make the picture want. Meaning if you want to blur the foreground or the background, then do it. I think there is no fixed aperture for the woodland, and in your conclusions I think you come to that point. The picture is in the eye of the beholder. Have you tried "focus stacking"? The camera takes a series of pictures from foreground to the background and then you stitch them together on the computer. The resulting picture is quite amazing. Sadly my camera can't do this.
Please keep making these videos. I admire what you are doing. Keep up the GREAT work! Cheers from British Columbia Canada!
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
I agree with what you say but I wanted to see the consequences. There are few rules in photography and the settings are what gives you the image you want. I feel for me if there is a specific subject I would go wide open but ultimately the composition dictates.
I have tried focus staking, though manually, as my camera is too old to do it for me. The problem I find is photoshop is sometime not good at blending them and manual intervention is needed.
I am not much of a woodland photographer mainly because I have yet to "see" a subject that I could capture a descent composition. The images that are most appealing from others all have a distinct separation from the subject and the background whether that be to just a less cluttered scene or a fog that disguises or completely hides the clutter, and great lighting conditions is always a plus. I envy and applaud those that put in way more effort than I do to accomplish the feat of capturing pleasing woodland scenes. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for your kind words.
I liked the photo of the dead tree and the last one with the path. However on the last one, as you said, the light was not consistent. Looking at the images on the IPad screen it was quite hard to be sure of the clarity anyway. Probably much easier to determine an opinion on a big PC screen.
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Between 8 - 14! I usually go for F11.
Thank you for your thoughts. As with a lot in photography, it depends on the location etc.
I think the answer to your question is that it will vary according to the subject. If you were photographing a single leaf on a branch then you'd probably open the lens and blur out the background, whereas for a scene like your first composition you'd close it down to capture everything sharp. I liked the second image, but the processing jarred - there was no need to de-saturate so hard - just back the luminosity of the greens off a bit and you'd have been fine. The dead tree I'd have ignored - the sky is just too distracting - and the hanging branch tree again I'd have cut the sky out of the frame. You can't just pull the highlights back because all the software will do is turn them grey. I've wombled through Ashness woods many times - the walk down to Watendlath Beck is lovely in the autumn, and if you carry straight on over the Beck then you can get to Shepherds Crag which is another lovely spot. I'm back in your area in a couple of weeks time and very much looking forward to it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a detailed comment.
I am still a novice in woodlands. I have been back out in the woods today.
All depends on the density of the Forest , location ... and the weather .. was out up the local woods F9-11 i used
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