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Sharing one photo every day until I forget (Day 7) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found a green flower! And a little friend on it, I took a few other pictures with different apertures and different distances but they all came out blurry/undetailed, so this was the best I got, oops!

Exposure Settings:

Aperture: f/5 Shutter Speed: 1/60s ISO: 200 Focal Length: 44mm

Information:

I have to post one picture every day, I can take pictures in advance, in case I'm unable to take a picture for whatever reason (vacation, weather, idk) but I still have to post once per day.

I can't post pictures of the same thing within like, a week or two, idk, I might get rid of this "rule" if I feel like it.

Don't be afraid to give me any feedback on any of my pictures, I'm still veeery new to photography and would love any feedback given.

Gear:

Canon EOS Rebel t2i

18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 EFS zoom lens

55-250mm f/4-5.6 EFS zoom lens

Pictures are taken in RAW, processed in Darktable and GIMP, then converted to webp and compressed to 70% quality.

If you'd like a higher (or full) quality image, just ask me in the replies or dms, I'll happily send it when I get a chance. If you don't specify a file format or quality, I'll just send a jpeg at 90% quality (or whatever necessary to get a reasonable file size). You can also totally ask for the version of the image before edits.

Also, you're free to do anything you want with any of my pictures, just don't claim you were the one to take it :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Assuming you used your 18-55mm lens for this one, the closest you can focus is about 10". If your subject is any closer than that you'll never be able to get it in focus.

When you're very close to the subject like this, your effective depth of field is going to be very shallow. In fact, it might not be possible to get all of your flower in sharp focus to begin with. So this is the kind of shot that would definitely benefit from focus stacking, which unfortunately is not a capability your particular camera has built in. You can do it manually, but either way you will definitely want to use a tripod to keep it still between each exposure.

My R10 has this capability built in but it's finicky, so I avoid it. I do use its inbuilt focus bracketing feature, however, and do the stacking myself externally. I use Helicon Focus for this but it's not free; those who are cheap and/or averse to pirating it may want to check out Petteri Aimonen's focus-stack utility instead.

Or as counterintuitive as it sounds, you could back up away from your subject and use the zoom on your lens to zoom in. Being further away will also increase your effective depth of field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, I think this was the absolute closest I could get while still being mostly in focus, I haven’t heard of focus stacking before, I might have to look into that a little bit.