CPW Workshop 7-29-12 Day 2 65

Bravissimo: great idea, wonderful result! I'm happy to meet you again, my dear and..."old" friend! Ciao, Maurizio.

At the end of the second day of my recent workshop at The Center for

Photography at Woodstock this couple posed doing a series of these

positions. As they set up by the pool that was on this property, I got down

on the ground looking up with the trees behind.

I'd have changed these parameters...

ExposureTime: 1/320 s
FNumber: f/8
ISOSpeedRatings: 1600
ExposureProgram: Aperture priority
FocalLength: 40 mm

...switched to manual and opened up the aperture + lowered the ISO, and if pos, got farther away but used longer lens.

Nice shot Mark!

Maurizio - Thank you for your kind words.

Tomek - I appreciate your thoughtful comment. I don't necessarily disagree with what your wrote. I used f/8 because he was rotating her in poses where the extra depth-of-field was helpful. I kept the ISO at 1600 so the shutter speed could remain at this level. 40mm is the actual focal length which translates to 64mm equivalence. While not long it did allow this framing from this particular point-of-view. I was on a downslope positioned so I was only slightly aboce hiw ground level.

Michael and Grigoriy - Thank you both, I appreciate the comments.

-Mark

Best regards Mark!

PDE