rose dress

[averyy]

The picture is a little blury though..
Comments are appreciated

 

[Derrel]

Kind of a fun shot, even though blurry.

 

[mishele]

That's a fun idea. Try to put a little more thought into the background and the pose. I immediately thought of a ballerina. Re-shoot and post it up!!
Oh and welcome to the forum.

 

[averyy]

Thank you for your comment!

 

[averyy]

Thank you! I got this idea from a picture I saw online. I actually live in a dorm so it's hard to find a great background for this kind of shots.

 

[mishele]

^^^It's only as hard as you make it. Do you have a open field or a park around you? Do you have a dance studio around?

 

[averyy]

Yeah there are many open field around

 

[mishele]

There you go...that's a start. :greenpbl:

 

[DarkShadow]

Just wondering as a newbie, how would the experts in here get the entire picture in focus.I was thinking maybe focus the camera on the girl first So it don't take priority on the closet subject then bring it back on the rose while still locked on the background.

 

[cynicaster]

I’m no expert but I think that would be a tough one to get all in focus without a pinhole camera and tripod.

Seriously though, using common gear, as a first crack at it I want to say I’d probably grab my 18-55 kit lens, set it at about 35mm or so and f/22, and place the flower about ~8ft from the lens, and the girl wherever she needs to be for the proper perspective.

Drawbacks of course would be that the final image would need to be heavily cropped and the subject would have to stand awfully still because the shutter would be slow under these conditions. Yet another reason to find an outdoor location.

I’d be interested to hear what others would do because I’m scratching my head a bit at this one.

 

[amolitor]

You could use a tilt lens to improve the situation, a bit. The shot would have to be composed differently, and specifically for the tilt.

These lenses let you tilt the plane of focus around a fair bit, so you could arrange for it to be much closer to the camera at the bottom of the frame than at the top. Combine with a very small aperture, and you could probably make a similar composition work.

 

[DarkShadow]

Thanks guys.Not trying to hijack the OP thread but since its a interesting photo.Seems like a challenge to me to get both in focus.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I'd try to figure out how to get the rose not quite so far from the woman yet far enough to still get this type look.

If you set up outdoors on a sunny day where there's a nice background, with more light you might be able to use a smaller aperture like f22. You wouldn't necessarily need a really fast shutter speed since the subject isn't moving, but your camera settings would need to be fast enough so you don't get blur from the shutter moving too slow or from camera movement (I can do 1/125 hand-held, maybe 1/60 at the slowest).

The creative part might be figuring out how to get the rose not so far away - the easiest may be to find a friend to hold it (or someone on your floor who is looking for a study break and an excuse to get outdoors). Otherwise set up the flower so you don't have to hold it and the camera. What comes to mind is maybe using a box (as needed putting an object with some weight to it in the bottom) then maybe poke a hole to put the stem in. Then figure out how to anchor the stem as needed - tape? a toilet paper tube? Or position the rose on a park bench? a tree stump? whatever is available. Of course you'd have to frame the shot to only have the upper part of the stem and rose in the picture, which would involve you figuring out your vantage point.

I have a Lensbaby and have done a little pinhole photography but haven't tried to get a really close object and the background all in focus. I do have older mechanical viewfinder cameras where the focus is well, basically everything in view, but those don't particularly give real sharp images.

 

[amolitor]

If you had a freakishly huge rose, or an extremely tiny girl, that could help, too!

 

[Derrel]

A split-field close-up filter is the tool I would use for this. It's almost like a bi-focal eyeglass lens, but for a camera. One half of the lens allows CLOSE-UP focus, while the other half of the filter is ground to allow FAR objects to be in-focus. Shots exactly like yours are where that kind of a filter used to be used for trick shots, before the advent of digital photography.

Here is a reference URL http://www.google.com/images?client...1&sa=X&ei=5vpRUfK1EIaZiAKg4oCAAQ&ved=0CCoQvwU