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So there I was cruising the grove with my usual bag of tricks and they just weren’t cutting it. I walked the road looking into the grove and then it hit me. I was doing it all wrong!
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I don’t know what it was but I realized that “more” DOF was wrong for what I was experiencing. I was shooting with the 18AF so I opened it up to f2.8 and looked at the LCD. I thought I was onto something.
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It’s then I ran back to the truck and pulled out the 24f1.4 and started shooting at f1.4. The challenge was keeping the film plane parallel with those elements in the photograph I want sharp and having those elements I don’t want sharp, out of that plane.
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I’m pleased that even with these thumbnails you get a sense of the feeling the minimum f1.4 DOF brings to the forest. It’s a technique I have tucked back in the back of my mind to use again. It was a great time cruising a favorite grove on the Eastside!
Photos captured by D3x, 24f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film