This afternoon was spent working with students on a field trip. After a whole class discussion about knowing your preferences, and working against your "go-to" approaches, I decided to spend the whole field trip working with my longest lens (a 70-200mm lens at the 200mm end) as so often I work for entire field trips with ultra-wide lenses.
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The decision paid off almost immediately with an image of a small waterfall - the longer lens let me make a much more stylized composition than I would have usually created, and while I used a long shutter speed as usual, the motion blur was more about smoothing out the flow, the blurring any swirling and turbulence, which is usually my focus.
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An early sprint growth against a beach, lawn and water makes for a simple study of light and beauty with a long lens and large aperture.
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After getting home from the field trip, I made another set of images using a full set of extension tubes on my macro lens, this time focusing it on a dandelion. It proved really challenging to focus, and the depth of field was also really frustrating (very shallow, even at a relatively small aperture). It is essentially a perfect storm of issues, with diffraction, close focus (which reduced the brightness of the light severely) and depth of field all presenting serious issues. All that bring true, I still am determined to work the issue through.
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