tree & door

[Mathieu Bauwens]

Han-s_Lesse by Mathieu Bauwens, sur Flickr

Chamonix 045F1
Fuji 180mm
Bergger Pancro 400

Basswood in front of the Han-sur-Lesse church, in th emiddle of Belgium. This tree used to be a prayer tree. Penitants comes from the villages around to pray and pin it on with nails.

 

[Anthony]

Lovely.

I think the picture wouldn't be interesting if the door was in focus.

(Who cares what I think - just keep doing what you're doing . . .)

 

[David M]

There seem to be two planes of unsharpness – the door, as Anthony says, and those foreground leaves. Tricky, very tricky. I'd be quite happy with the unsharp door, if all parts of the tree were sharp (within reason). I wouldn't mind at all if the door and wall were even less sharp, although if it were me, I'd be juggling the movements to get everything sharp.That might well be impossible; there may be movement in the leaves.
Pay no attention to this. Sharpness is a bourgeois concept as a celebrated 35mm photographer[er once said.