Comments on: Nature Photography IS like a Box of Chocolates … https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/20/nature-photography-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/20/nature-photography-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates/comment-page-1/#comment-1948709 Fri, 20 May 2022 20:33:39 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=80237#comment-1948709 In reply to Cliff Beittel.

Thanks, Cliff. I always love the slim-to-none depth of field look. For a very small aperture I would have need to be on a tripod; I am not sure that she would have like that …

with love, a

ps; The background was her carapace.

]]> By: Cliff Beittel https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/05/20/nature-photography-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates/comment-page-1/#comment-1948705 Fri, 20 May 2022 19:49:04 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=80237#comment-1948705 The frontal view and lips I like, as I’ve always shot these turtles in profile. Would prefer the nostrils sharper though. With the 100-400, I often go to f22, f32, and even f45 for DOF (less optically sharp, perhaps, but fine with Topaz), and the background here is simple enough that more depth wouldn’t be a negative. Even at f22, though, it might be necessary to focus somewhere between the nostrils and eyes, or even (with a still subject) combine separate frames, one for the nostrils, one for the eyes (a case where you would need to turn off eye detection).

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