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[Dovrob]

Noticed in Edinburgh today. Taken with quite a wide aperture to the blur middle distance a little, while leaving it recognisable. As ever thoughts and comments welcome.

[Geoff F]

Nice idea, David, but for me there is too much variation between the verticals. Which is throwing the background lines too far off straight.

Are those litter bin lines really upright or are you attempting to force a tapered bin into a straight line?

Would it be possible to 'distort' the background into being more vertical? Possibly with a tighter crop?

I'm not really sure what to say here. Maybe a tighter crop on the bins? Possibly a square crop?

[bnnrcn]

Hi David,I find the BG too crowded with some pictures or patterns on the wall..(is that a wall?)I would crop them ,a square crop might work well as Geoff says.

[Dovrob]

Thanks Geoff and Binnur. The background is the offices of Lothian buses, during its refit. The images on it are street scenes, buses, etc. I think what you are alluding to Geoff would be to take the shot more over to the right, cutting out the street corner?
My aim was to show the 3 layers of the picture, fore, mid and background, which I think I accomplished, though how they combine with each other I think I'm missing.

[Dovrob]

Also Geoff the road is on a slope, which may also add a further complication to the verticals

[Shadowman]

Noticed in Edinburgh today. Taken with quite a wide aperture to the blur middle distance a little, while leaving it recognisable. As ever thoughts and comments welcome.

What settings did you use and where was your focus indicator placed within the scene?

[IzzieK]

Most photographers will not photograph a rubbish bin, but you did. You must be one of those unique photographer...

[Wavelength]

Nicely conceived and conveyed

[Dovrob]

You're right Isabel, give me something strange to photograph and I'm happy, haha. John I used a 28mm prime lens, which is fully manual. ISO 2000, shutter 1/200 and I think aperture either f8 or 5.6. I focused on the first "litter" sign on the lefty hand side.

[Geoff F]

A quick edit, David, to illustrate the sort of idea which I had in mind.



The scene is a fraction tight to start with and I found that some of your ICC profiles were discarded by my software. And of course, it is a low resolution image.

However, just my thoughts on this scene.

ps. I also did a very slight bit of cloning on the bins to make them look a little more like a face.

[Dovrob]

Hi Geoff,
I can see the merits of the tighter crop, maybe I was just being too ambitious in trying to get the 3 layers in when it wasn't working. Difficulty in working with a fixed lens, losing that easy zoom capacity and being too quick in the editing. I'm though still pleased with the concept, just need to work on my execution more.

[Geoff F]

The usual advice for fixed lenses, David, is to 'Zoom with your feet'. But not so easy to move around when your back is against a wall or you are standing on a cliff edge!

Which is why most of my lenses are zooms.

[Dovrob]

Never mind zoom with my feet, I'm certainly learning on my feet with this lens. Amazing how much I've taken for granted with zoom and auto everything. Manual may not be the way to go, but certainly teaching me things.