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, with smaller aperture - http://365project.org/taffy/365/2014-01-18. In the bw version here, only the first two bottle tops are in focus and the outlines of the bottles begin to fade into each other and the background. 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.
Mary Beth inspired me to try to salvage something out of my failed snowflake attempts today. Here it is: http://365project.org/taffy/special-photos/2014-01-18
@danielwsc Thanks Daniel! And for the advice re the lens. I kept going back and forth on it because of the low aperture, but I don't think it buys me anything over my prime lenses and it's a lot to have invested in a lens I'm not using. Thanks!
Definitely like this B&W version better....seems much crisper and sharper, and with the better defined bottles in the front the blurry repetition more noticeable in the ones in the back.
