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Shot with Nikon D70, Sigma 105 macro lens, Nikon SB600 flash, ISO 250, about f11, 1/60th. Massaged in Nikon Capture Editor and Neat Image.

Comments?

Brad,

I'm becoming a fan of your treefrog. It has a very photogenic face. This is a very nice shot. It's eally sharp for 1/60th second with a 105mm lens if the camera was only hand held. The one thing that would've made it even better IMO would've been to stop down to f/14-f/16 and get that left arm in sharp focus. But it's still a great shot.

Cheers,
WK

Yes, the shot was made handheld at 1/60th, but the ambient conditions were poor (probably f2.8 at 1/60th), so the flash completely overwhelmed that and gave me a sharp photo.

Not sure I get your meaning. Anyhow, if you took the shot at f/2.8, you achieved amazing depth of field for that wide-open aperture setting. Were you a long distance away and then cropped the photo? That's a way to increase depth of field too.

Cheers,
WK

No, I shot the image at about f11 and 1/60th and using my flash.

The ambient conditions (the existing level of light in the room) was only sufficient for maybe 1/60th at 2.8 with no flash. When I used flash at f11, the flash overwhelmed the ambient conditions, sort of like popping a strobe light in a dark room. It "froze" the image. That's why the image was sharp when shot at 1/6oth handlheld. The flash itself only lasts maybe 1000th of a second. There wasn't enough light left for anything to register for the remaining 1/59.99th seconds that the shutter was open.

And that was a full-frame image. My experience says that if I shoot wide and then crop, the cropped segment will begin to show loss of focus. I don't think there's any way to get around depth-of-field issues without getting close and shooting at small apertures.