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Telkin Vaga, on 12 September 2013 - 07:22 PM, said:
Thanks for your kind comments everyone! The lens only goes to F32, most of these were shot at F9 and a few at F3.2. I might be misunderstanding what you're saying but stopped down to F32 would give me more depth of field which would allow the right shoulder/arm to be more in focus. That wouldn't necessarily change the field of view though.
Another consideration I had to keep in mind is that the constant lasers act + fog act as a secondary light source. Stopping down to F32 would mean about a 4-6 sec shutter. The fog being lit up by lasers for that long will become a colored cloud in front of the mech rather than atmospheric smoke.
After doing this, CG lasers might have been the path of least resistance lol.
Field of view is fine, was just thinking depth of field. If the whole mech is in focus, it looks more like you're shooting a large object than a small one, as the narrow band of focus you have implies that it's a small object captured from up close instead of a large one from far away, where most of the scene would be in focus.
But yeah, I hadn't considered that the fog would be in motion, was just thinking that you had a tripod there and that would make the long shutter time irrelvant. I think the detail in the fog is more than worth the tradeoff with the shallow focus, now that I think about it.
Detail holds up at poster size.
