chandra

From a riverside village near to my home town in india . I spent few hrs during an early morning on my vacation. it was mansoon season and the sun was mild.i liked the reflections.

f:7.1, iso 800, 1/5000s

The only part of the forums where photos taken with other brands are not welcome are the formal competitions. Adam has been very clear about that from the beginning when the question has been asked.

Thank you Merco_61 and added few more photos.

While I went to india this time, had a chance to take some shots of the art form of 'Kathakali' stage show with their permission.

fyi, Kathakali has its origins almost 1500 years ago in the early ritual folk dances and dance dramas.it is one of the oldest theatre forms in the world. It originated in the area of southwestern India now known as the state of Kerala. Kathakali is a group presentation, in which dancers take various roles in performances traditionally based on themes from Hindu mythology, especially the two epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

The first 4 shots are @ISO1600 f5.6 on Nikon D5300 using a 18-300mm zoom. while the rest with a 5D III @f2.8

Chandra, the depth of field gets really thin when using high magnifications even with the lens stopped down. I am not sure what distance I shot these at, but with a magnification of 1:5 It was something like 38 cm on this lens. The bud in the background was an indistinct blob at f/16 so f/22 was the minimum without focus stacking. In the first photo you can see just how narrow the DOF is at f/11. Ideally, I would have liked to shoot at f/5.6 where the 55 is at it's sharpest and stacked photos with a distance of 2 mm per shot and around 50 shots in the stack.

 

When shooting red (and to a lesser extent blue) flowers, I like to use ISO 800-1250 on the D700 as the reduced DR at these higher but not unmanageable ISO values makes it easier to map highly saturated colours into the sRGB gamut and 8 bits of colour depth for the web. As I edit from 14-bit RAW in ProPhotoRGB, I don't see a blown channel without softproofing or exporting a copy.

 

If there had been wind to contend with, I would have used flash and 1/60 shutter speed, but still f/22 and ISO 1000.

Thanks Merco_61 for the reply; very good info to me the way the settings are selected..

Hi  Merco_61, i liked these shots very much, wanted to check below please...

1. how the bokeh effect with such apertures f8,f11? is it because of the lense? guess this is a macro lense.i have never used a macro.
2. even then why do we need to hike the iso to this high, can't we reduce 2-3 stops for a higher shutter speed, is there an advanatge in keeping this shutter speed?

thanks,,