Digital BW, The Print

But is it done - and done well- with b&w landscapes? 

Here is why I ask: for landscapes, folks like Ansel Adams taught that 
aperture is the first concern. He and other great landscape artists 
were very concerned about sharpness and capturing a lot of detail. He 
even founded Group f.64 - guess why ! He felt that photography should 
take advantage of the nature of the medium and make photographs with 
as much depth of field as possible. But in some scenes it's hard to 
emphasize a particular tree or group of natural elements because 
they're not well seperated from other distracting elements around 
them. That's why I was asking.

If someone has some good examples and web sites with samples they 
could point me to where the photographer used selective DOF IN A 
LANDSCAPE  - and did it with SUCCESS :) that would help me study other 
works and gain some perspective on an alternative technique that may 
serve me well. 

Thanks.                            


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Watson 
<bwyg@...> wrote:
>
> markleewebb wrote:
> > Question - for shots like this where you are stuck with a 
background 
> > of other trees and you have other trees to right and to left and 
> > sometimes in foreground - can you ever use DOF to emphasize your 
main 
> > subject? Nail focus on main subject but go very soft using DOF on, 
> > say, the background? Is this ever done with landscapes?
> >   
> Of course it's "done." Selective focus is just another tool to use 
in 
> expressing one's vision.
> --
> Bruce Watson
>