Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

I've only a can of Kodak IR under my belt and tried unmodified digital IR.

IR is all over the place, so you don't have the same options as with normal films.

Selective focus with this factor and typical wide FOV is problem prone. To make it effective I think you have to choose the subject placement carefully and maybe consider morning shooting when only some things have warmed-up.

I can't relate ansel stuff to IR stuff in any which way.

And I really don't know about the digital end - you don't indicate what wavelength your sensor can resolve.

gar

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On 3/7/08 at 3:43 AM markleewebb wrote:

>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
>>
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