Photographers: Hit Me With Your Best Shot

[MyMonkey]

MAD COW. The bokeh on these is great! Nice work. ANy info on the shot setup?

 

[338Shooter]

I gotta know how you pulled this off. What camera/lens/settings. Did you do it in Ps or is it all in camera?

Here are a few of my shots.

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[guns are dumb]

MAD COW. The bokeh on these is great! Nice work. ANy info on the shot setup?

I gotta know how you pulled this off. What camera/lens/settings. Did you do it in Ps or is it all in camera?

The key to that shot is being close (close to the close-focus distance of the lens, so if this was shot with a 300mm lens then this would have been shot at maybe 20 feet, if it was shot with a 105mm lens, then maybe it was shot at 8 or 10 feet), nearly any semi-decent lens will have moderate bokeh at very close distances. Aside from that, the "rivets" (are they rivets?) are back-lit to add a little drama.

 

[338Shooter]

I was more interested in how the single rivet was completely sharp, but all adjacent rivets are extremely OOF. It seems like a very difficult shot to pull off. The bokeh is nice, but the DOF is....perfect.

 

[guns are dumb]

I was more interested in how the single rivet was completely sharp, but all adjacent rivets are extremely OOF. It seems like a very difficult shot to pull off. The bokeh is nice, but the DOF is....perfect.

The one rivet is sharp because this was shot at a wide f-stop with a long(er) focal length. That isolates the subject.

 

[338Shooter]

That's why I wanted to know the combo!

 

[isaiahsdad]

Hey I did one of those flowers years ago and did some IR filtering with it.

 

[OKC MAD COW]

Forgot to include shot info. Here it is.

Here are a few of my shots.

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"One in the Crowd"

Nikon D80
Nikon 55-200 VR DX Lens
ISO 100
200mm
f5.6
1/200 sec

This photo was shot with my 200mm zoom lens at full zoom. A zoom lens zoomed all the way will provide the nice bokeh seen here. You'll notice not only is the rivet in focus but look directly to the right and you'll see the thin plane that was in focus too. I don't recall how far away I was but it was between 6 - 10 feet. You can achieve similar results with a smaller fstop # / bigger opening. For example, a lens with a 1.2, 1.4, or 1.8. The difference is you don't have to be as far away. This is my favorite type of photography.
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"Still Holding On"

Nikon D80
Nikon 18 - 55 VR DX Lens
ISO 100
55mm
f5.6
1/13 sec
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"Time Is Running Out"

Nikon D80
Nikon 55-200 VR DX Lens
ISO 100
200mm
f5.6
1/250 sec

 

[OKC MAD COW]

Hey I did one of those flowers years ago and did some IR filtering with it.

Very cool, I like it!

 

[mhphoto]

Don't think I've posted any of these yet.

"Bear" puppy.

Bleach bypassed taffy pull.

Cross-processed field.

Cross-processed Tulsa.

My 22-toed cat, Oskar.

Extracted chlorophyll hit with UV light glows a deep red.

And some ammo comparisons.