The Camera Setting Challenge is to use wide aperture. I was picking up some things at a local store and thought their displays lent themselves to working with wide and narrow ones. I took some shots with the widest my lens allowed (f4.5) and some that were narrower (see the one in my main album for comparison). The main difference is that the bottle tops, background, and outlines are more defined in the color version here, with smaller aperture (f14) In the bw version in my extras/challenges album, only the first two bottle tops are in focus and the outlines of the bottles begin to fade into each other and the background - http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2014-01-18. Neither shot was what I'd wanted to do today (involving snowflakes, but none of them turned out), so I processed to try to make each one a little more interesting. Processed in Nik Analog.
Update -- Mary Beth inspired me to save something out of the snowflake attempt. Here's the result in overflow: http://365project.org/taffy/special-photos/2014-01-18
This is great! Really love your explanation which gives me the urge to try it myself and find out what I get by doing the comparison! It's wonderful to know how some captures were achieved....such a great learning curve!
@wendyhgill I agree, Wendy. I think the b&w has more interest because of the use of the wider aperture. I did have fun using a new filter in Nik Suite for this one, called "analog" but I have no idea why.
@beryl Try as I might, I can't see the Viking in it...but excited you did!
@savannah51 I'm glad to illustrate this, Sharon! It helps me to change settings, photograph using both and compare afterward. It's how I've learned to understand the relationship among aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Now it's getting to be second nature but it took awhile.
@joemuli Heehee, re the OCD! I actually did fix the bottle tops and lined them up 'better' before shooting!
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Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment on these paired images, tackling the wide aperture challenge. I agree with all of you that the black & white is the preferred version -- what is interesting to me is how the same objects can look so different especially when the differences are exaggerated by processing.
@beryl Try as I might, I can't see the Viking in it...but excited you did!
@savannah51 I'm glad to illustrate this, Sharon! It helps me to change settings, photograph using both and compare afterward. It's how I've learned to understand the relationship among aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Now it's getting to be second nature but it took awhile.
@joemuli Heehee, re the OCD! I actually did fix the bottle tops and lined them up 'better' before shooting!
Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment on these paired images, tackling the wide aperture challenge. I agree with all of you that the black & white is the preferred version -- what is interesting to me is how the same objects can look so different especially when the differences are exaggerated by processing.