Mountain Stalk

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• Heaven (6062)
• [2007-12-11 12:37]

Hi Stuart!

And welcome to TN! It's always a pleasure to mee a new person here! I hope that you soon will feel at home. As I do when I look at your picture! It's a well known region to me. I like your funny picture and the surprisin, yet pleasant composition.

Kind regards

Markus

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• MCB (12)
• [2007-12-11 13:12]

Hi Stuart,

A really nice punchy pic to post as your first on TN, presumably as you have aperture/shutterspeed, this can be altered? I tend to find with P+S cameras that the depth of field is much greater for a given aperture than on an SLR because of the small actual focal length and sensor size. This explains the actually quite discernible background at f/5.6. It looks to me like you had the cow parsley too near the camera which lead to a few stalks poking out of the front of the acceptably sharp depth of field. None of the stalks on the other side are out of focus, so you could try setting a greater aperture or just taking pics for a little further back in future.

Here's a useful calculator to work it out for a given camera and aperture:

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

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• sayat (1457)
• [2007-12-12 1:24]

Hi Stuart, welcome to TN. This is a very nice shot in terms of sharpness and colors. I think a more alive plant would do better though :)

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• bullybeef53 (791)
• [2007-12-18 12:48]

Stuart ,
what a view !
Sony P200is certainly a great camera and don't forget your skill and composure .
Well done ,
jim