.44 Magnum

[Josh66]

 

[CW Jones]

so sick! love everything about the picture!

 

[Josh66]

Thank you.

 

[manaheim]

Oh hey nice. Are the bullets more in focus than the gun, or should I go get my glasses? Love the colors. Very nice.

 

[Josh66]

Yes, they are. I knew that there was no way I could get all of it in focus, so this seemed best to me.

Thanks.


(Even if I could have gotten all of it in focus, this would probably still look better...)


EDIT
Damn... I just noticed that you can see the edge of the paper in the upper right corner (just barely).

 

[ottor]

Sweet !!! :thumbup:

 

[farmerj]

Crank the aperture down to f/22 or something like that, bet it would all be in focus. I think you're right though, this would/will look better.

Little less harsh on the light from the left.

 

[squirl033]

Crank the aperture down to f/22 or something like that, bet it would all be in focus. I think you're right though, this would/will look better.

Little less harsh on the light from the left.

at that distance, even f/22 wouldn't get it all... i'm guess the lens was about a foot away to get that FOV at 50mm... at that distance and focal range, f/22 would only give you an "in-focus" DOF of about an inch - maybe enough to keep the bullets in back as sharp as the ones in front. as it is, for f/5.6 there's more in focus than i would have expected...

 

[farmerj]

More like about 4-5" DOF at 2 feet. Pull back to 3 feet and you will have just under a foot of DOF.

Online Depth of Field Calculator

 

[Josh66]

i'm guess the lens was about a foot away to get that FOV at 50mm...

Yeah, it was about a foot or a foot & a half. Pretty close to the minimum focus distance of the 50mm f/1.4 (can't remember exactly what that is off hand).

More like about 4-5" DOF at 2 feet. Pull back to 3 feet and you will have just under a foot of DOF.

Wouldn't have worked. If I built a bigger box, maybe.
At that distance I would have had to use a longer lens (which would mean that I would also have to shoot from a lower angle, which means I would need even more DOF). If you look at the top right corner, you can see exactly how close I was to the edge.

 

[farmerj]

I can barely make out anything in the top corner.

With my cruddy 6 YO uncalibrated laptop, that's not a good thing to miss.


I do like the composition though.

 

[Josh66]

I can barely make out anything in the top corner.

With my cruddy 6 YO uncalibrated laptop, that's not a good thing to miss.

It's easy to miss. I didn't see it untill my reply to manaheim.

I'm probably more picky about that stuff than most people though. The edge is a little grey. That's the edge of the paper (it's hard to see because it's not in focus) - it's only a few pixels wide.
EDIT
I only missed it because it's inside that tiny area that you can't see in the viewfinder.

I do like the composition though.

Thanks.

 

[Paul M]

Nice shot, love the clarity on the ammo and the DOF on the cylinder. Now I'll ask because this is my 1st hobby...My guess is it's a Ruger Redhawk and something like a Leupold 3x9 scope What is the actual setup you shot here?

 

[Josh66]

Nice shot, love the clarity on the ammo and the DOF on the cylinder. Now I'll ask because this is my 1st hobby...My guess is it's a Ruger Redhawk and something like a Leupold 3x9 scope

Thank you.

It's a Ruger Super Blackhawk Hunter with Leupold 2x20 (FX-2) scope.

 

[lugnut]

i think that looks awesome


but.....i would never tell a man with .44 mag that his picture didn't look awesome