BTW, about focus: this is actually shot through my vertical blinds! Due to the long focal length (again image stabilization helps immensely, couldn't have taken this picture without it), depth of field is so slight that the blinds in the foreground are so blurred as to be virtually invisible. I shot it through the blinds, because as I suspected, as soon as I drew them, the bird flew away.
By the way, "to draw the blinds" (or curtains), does that mean to close them or open them? ... (looking it up) According to the dictionary, it means either. A bit messy that. Like "to tie up" and "to tie down" meaning the same thing.
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Love the focus (foreground/background) on this one... very cool! :)
Thank you very much.
Yes, focus differential can be kool.
Drawing the curtains can be either direction.
Tie down is to tie against something. Tie up is to secure against itself or something else.
I always liked playing with depth of field. I like how a fence can become invisible until you pull focus.
I like getting stupid depth of field as well, you know, having a hood ornament to a car, 6 inches away, in perfect focus and getting details further back too. I often used to shoot with a wide iris to fuzz out the background, then the subject becomes more apparent. It also reduced shake, being a faster shutter.
I like the composition, you must be 2nd floor (3rd in American) to get that angle.
It's funny, I thought the same thing, despite having lived with the view for five years! But actually I am only on the first floor (the one just above the ground floor).
I guess that's the second floor in American lingo? I hate all those confusions. like dates. Is 5/8 the fifth of August or the eight of May? You never know if you don't have context.
My current project, I got lazy and scheduled a release for 07/07/07 just because I couldn't remember which format we were using. I typically use yyyymmdd for transmitted data and file names. The former - it's most significant first, the latter sorts alphanumerically in windows and with ls and dir. In writing I always use a three letter month and in speaking I always say the month name.
Short street lamp, or set back a ways. Looking at the opposite roof, and extrapolating from some of your other photos it starts to become more apparent. The roof opposite implies shooting upwards.
Indeed. Slightly. The lamp head is perhaps 40 centimeters above my head height.
Like you said, set back a ways because of the long lens. (200mm. 300mm equivalent.)
"Drawn" is related to drag. So when you "draw" the curtains you are pulling them somewhere. You could draw them open, or draw them closed, but (as with the word "luck") the more common of two opposite preposition-aided usages becomes the primary use without a preposition.
One of my favorite double-duty word is "sanctions."
A. The United Nations levied sanctions against Iran because of their nuclear program. (noun, means punishment)
B. I cannot sanction that action. Without the bank's sanction the loan won't go through.
(verb or noun, means to approve, approval)
So it's a good thing or a bad thing, this "sanction" thing.
I always write the date (when not restricted to a particular format anyway) as 16 AUG 1967 for example. I actually learned this in the Army! No confusion with that way.
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