Sunset Beach HDR 09a Apr 30 2012.jpg

Sunset Beach HDR 09a Apr 30 2012.jpg, a photo by VancouverDoug on Flickr.

Can't see the forest for the jungle.

I sort of like the depth of field in this photo but know another 3cm or so front and back would have been awesome. Sigh. Since this was an HDR shoot speed of shot was a priority. Getting all five shots in under 500 ms would minimize motion in the series. On a windy day that meant 1/30s as the slowest shutter speed.

This in turn meant big aperture's (f/5.6 or so) and thus low depth of field. Grrr.

Maybe I should compare the downside of getting noise with a higher ISO vs the bigger depth of field. I used ISO 200 for these and the software I use could most likely handle any noise reduction up to ISO 640. Hmmmm.