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X100 group shot

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
sluggy_warrior Veteran Member • Posts: 3,204
Re: X100 group shot

Miskec wrote:

Very nice. In this particulary photo where exactly is your focus point?

I think it was the girl with pink wig/hair in the middle.

My reasoning was: even if I don't have enough DoF, the faces in front row are of slightly larger sizes, there should be enough details even if they're not in focus. The people in the back have smaller faces, so they should have more focus/sharpness.

I was shooting from slightly higher than the stage, trying to have the focal plane parallel to the front-to-back plane (the plane of all faces).

Another advantage of the RAF is the flexible sharpening. I ran the export through RL-deconvolution (50 iterations), which is very good at deblurring, but it's an intensive process not meant for in-camera processing.

https://gmic.eu/reference/deblur_richardsonlucy.html

Also, depending on the lens, you'll need to balance between resolution vs corner/edge sharpness. If I shoot with the 18-55 for example, I'd not frame people too close to the edges because of distortion and softness, thus people would have smaller faces (in terms of pixels). For this shot, the 50-140 is excellent across the frame so I was able to zoom in tightly to maximize the pixel count.

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