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Day 133 of 365 "What's at the End of Your Rainbow?, or, "Why is This Image Cooler Than You Think It Is?"
Day 133 of 365
"What's at the End of Your Rainbow?, or, "Why is This Image Cooler Than You Think It Is?"
Layer Stacking!!! What? Layer stacking!! I don't care. This evening some friends gave my kid a rainbow slinky and two emoji figurines. Naturally, they HAD to be the subjects of today's image. Why is this image so cool? Well.....it's not. With that said, it actually is......to a photographic nerd like myself. Why, you don't ask? I'm glad you asked!! So, I shot this with a 100 macro lens. This is important because it has a very shallow depth of field when wide open. Imagine if you will, a portrait or headshot. Now imagine the eyes are in focus, but the nose and ears are totally out of focus. Does that make sense? That is a shallow depth of field. So, today's image is a composite of six exposures, shot in sequence, from the tree, all the way to the figurine at camera-left. Now, in the exposure of the tree, the entire rest of the image is completely out of focus. By racking (changing) focus between exposures, I am making sure that every "layer" of the scene is tack-sharp. In this case, I decided to blur the slinky a bit. Because the depth of field is so shallow, the front edge is in focus, but the back end is blurred. The only giveaway is the right hand of the camera-left emoji, and his legs. The depth of field is actually so shallow that while his head is in focus, his legs (only slightly off the same plane) are out of focus. Pardon me for layers of nerdism. Regardless, thanks for dropping in!!!
#nerd #emojis #emoji #figurines #rainbow #slinky #depthoffield #shallowdepthoffield #layerstacking #macro #miniature #canon5dmarkIII #canon100macro #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank #softbox #pocketwizards #potofgold #
Day 133 of 365 "What's at the End of Your Rainbow?, or, "Why is This Image Cooler Than You Think It Is?"
Day 133 of 365
"What's at the End of Your Rainbow?, or, "Why is This Image Cooler Than You Think It Is?"
Layer Stacking!!! What? Layer stacking!! I don't care. This evening some friends gave my kid a rainbow slinky and two emoji figurines. Naturally, they HAD to be the subjects of today's image. Why is this image so cool? Well.....it's not. With that said, it actually is......to a photographic nerd like myself. Why, you don't ask? I'm glad you asked!! So, I shot this with a 100 macro lens. This is important because it has a very shallow depth of field when wide open. Imagine if you will, a portrait or headshot. Now imagine the eyes are in focus, but the nose and ears are totally out of focus. Does that make sense? That is a shallow depth of field. So, today's image is a composite of six exposures, shot in sequence, from the tree, all the way to the figurine at camera-left. Now, in the exposure of the tree, the entire rest of the image is completely out of focus. By racking (changing) focus between exposures, I am making sure that every "layer" of the scene is tack-sharp. In this case, I decided to blur the slinky a bit. Because the depth of field is so shallow, the front edge is in focus, but the back end is blurred. The only giveaway is the right hand of the camera-left emoji, and his legs. The depth of field is actually so shallow that while his head is in focus, his legs (only slightly off the same plane) are out of focus. Pardon me for layers of nerdism. Regardless, thanks for dropping in!!!
#nerd #emojis #emoji #figurines #rainbow #slinky #depthoffield #shallowdepthoffield #layerstacking #macro #miniature #canon5dmarkIII #canon100macro #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank #softbox #pocketwizards #potofgold #