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Your best bet might be to rent a camera with a full sized sensor. Most
digitals have a smaller than normal sensor which really increases your depth of
field. Another choice would be to shoot film & get the images scanned. A lot
more cost & work, but you'd definitely get a shorter DOF than you using your
digital with a small sensor. Good luck.
Bill in Nebraska
Elson Elizaga wrote: > I did as you described but my lens seems unable to blur the background > much. The shots of the relatively flat gravestones -- those raised and > cemented on the walls -- appear to be fine. But those of the obelisks > are not so. > > Your idea about using flash came up on me, too, except that I had no > companion when I made the shots, and it was so windy. I went to the > cemetery on bright sunlight, and decided the contrast was extremely > high. Then I returned several days later on cloudy afternoon. The > scenery looked better, but I was forced to shoot at low speed, and it > was windy and I had no tripod, and I was in a hurry. But at least I > saw the difference, and now I know which climate is best for this > assignment. I wanted to maintain an ISO of 200 to 400 only. > > I'm wondering how a 60mm micro (macro) lens would handle this scene. > > The project has me curious about the symbols -- the obelisks, the > pointing finger (a reference to Da Vinci's John the Baptist?), the > weeping willow (I don't know, yet, what this means), and what appears > to be the masonic handshake. All these repeated in several instances. > I intentionally placed a large photo on the cover, showing the name > "Magdalena". I'm sure some of you here have also read "Holy Blood, > Holy Grail," "The Templar Revelation," and similar literatures. > > Near one of the gravestones marked "Bryans" > (http://isb.elizaga.net/94-99.htm), I found four coins during my third > visit. I had a companion then. He is doing the documentation of this > cemetery. He took a quick look at the coins and said they were US > money, dated 1970s up. How they got there we don't know. > > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. > <http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNjkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA21haWwtZm9vdGVyBHNsawNmYw--/SIG=110oav78o/**http%3a//farechase.yahoo.com/> -- Pablo Coronel R. Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Food Science North Carolina State University Room 14B Schaub Hall, Box 7624 Raleigh, NC, 27695 Phone (919) 513-8077 Fax (919) 515-7124 e-Fax (419) 818-7590 e-mail pcorone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pcorone |
