Head shot of an unknown longkang goby

**valice** · 9th Mar 2007, 00:26

Is this picture soft?

**benny** · 9th Mar 2007, 12:48

Yes. It does seems to be a tad soft. It's cropped then resized?

Cheers,

**hwchoy** · 9th Mar 2007, 12:52

is it? looks quite ok to me considering you are using ƒ/16 and have hardly any DOF. This fish is broad bodied.

**valice** · 9th Mar 2007, 17:00

It was slightly cropped only IIRC. It was shot with the Kenko extender (2 small ones) together with the Canon 100mm. So the DOF is nearly paper thin.

**hwchoy** · 9th Mar 2007, 17:08

and the kenko will also introduce some softness, on top of the ƒ/16.

**valice** · 9th Mar 2007, 17:15

I thought so too. As after I removed the Kenko and just shoot the goby with only the 100mm, the picture is sharper and DOF is not so thin.

Same problem faced when using Benny's MP-5. Nearly vomited blood.

**StanChung** · 11th Mar 2007, 00:37

Why vomit blood?

Shot by the looks good. Harder lighting would probably give it a little zing.

**valice** · 11th Mar 2007, 02:40

The vomit blood was when using the MP-5. I was trying out different way of diffusing the top lighting. Currently trying out with an Omni-bounce. Lighting is softer than using a piece of paper as diffusor.