View Single Post
  #1  
Old 10-23-2009, 09:33 AM
Buddy Thomason's Avatar
Buddy Thomason Buddy Thomason is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,206
Extreme depth of field

This project required a technique that gets talked about a lot but not used very often. The task was to document a damascus blade, the first in a series.
A flat side view wasn't much of a problem. Click to enlarge, then you may have to click on the image again to make it open fully in your browser window:

#1

I thought we were done then Josh asked for a shot looking down the blade:

#2


This one is a composite of eight separate exposures, each sharply focused on a 1/8th section of the blade, tang to tip. It's tough (impossible) to shoot that close and have depth of field deep enough to get everything in focus with a single exposure. It worked (Josh was satisfied), but it's also kind of disorienting to look at. It's as if the eye/brain is confused by the absence of something it had expected to see: those inevitable areas of variable focus in most photographs that allow the viewer to judge relative distances etc. Weird.


__________________

Avatar ~ custom crank case cover from 1969 Harley shovelhead chopper
Reply With Quote