Cold morning

Justin,

As in the case of your last image, I think you have a good, creative idea but the image does not quite do it justice. Again, I think one of the biggest issues here is the lack of DOF. At an f stop of 2.0, very little is going to be in focus. I think this shot needs a larger area that is in focus to show more detail in the frost which is your central subject. I am not familiar with the camera you are using but if possible I would suggest you use a tripod for shots like this. Nothing is moving in the image and you could shoot at a much slower shutter speed (if your camera permits it) and get significantly more DOF. You are definitely 'seeing' creatively. Try shooting these shots at several different f stops so you have a variety of images to look at to compare the effects of different amounts of DOF. Thank you for your post in FFM. I hope you are enjoying your trip.

I have to agree with Cheryl here Justin. I think you have a creative side to you and it could really be an asset to your photography. I think you would benefit from reading one of John Shaw's books on nature photography with regards to composition and subject matter. I hope that I have not offended you here because I didn't mean to.

TSparger wrote: I hope that I have not offended you here because I didn't mean to.

None taken.

The reason I post is to learn. I am very new to this hobby and even newer to my camera. So any advise I can get is wonderful. I just finished a John Shaw book "Focusing on Nature," and being very wet behind the ears, it seemed to lack the "whys" of his pictures. He said I took this with these settings but not I took these with these settings because...

Now I've only been through it once and may have missed that part so I am going back to read it again.

Again thank you for the advise, please keep 'em coming, and be patient.

Thanks

I think this has a lot of potential. Stopping way down to the smalles aperture on that lens would give it a lot more DOF and thereby create more texture which is what B&W excels at.