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Impressions of Gallipoli

Started Aug 12, 2018 | Discussions thread
otumay
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Re: Impressions of Gallipoli

Scottelly wrote:

Osman, I was just looking closely at the second photo, because I'm interested with regard to another thread here about the 14mm f1.8 Art lens. I see you shot it at f4, which should produce good quality images, but I only see detail visible in the middle of the frame. I'm surprised how shallow the depth of field looks. f4 isn't a small aperture, but it's a long way from wide open. It doesn't look like you were focusing on anything really close either. What's going on there? Did you purposely blur the right and left areas of the cobblestones on the ground while post-processing?

Scott, this puzzled me even more. I shot about 340 but had to discard 40 due to focusing or compositional errors. Then I noticed that the ones I discarded due to errors in focusing were mostly shot by the 14mmA. This was not the first outing with that lens, and I had previously achieved very satisfactory results, both indoors and outside. I shall have to look closely into this issue. I promise to give feedback.

Thank you for your discerning comment.

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