Existential woes

[Stefan Stuart Fletcher]

It's olive-picking time and the trees are heavy and bent with fruit. The old ones really grow twisted and misshapen. This shot was taken about an hour before sunset in a narrow valley. I really wanted the gnarled, knotty trunk with those holes (are they nesting caches?) to "pop" out with an exaggeration of the bent trunk, hence the fairly narrow DOF. Still, the best-laid plans of mice, men and amateur photographers...

[peety3]

Go thinner (DOF) and wider - a wider focal length will "put more distance" between the near trunk and the far branches, assuming the same amount of near trunk is in the shot.


See http://www.the-digital-picture.com/P...03-19_08-33-40 for a quickie example.