Recuerdo de Cuba (Souvenir from Cuba), for Fred255 by Elcet

Photography • Sea/Undersea • posted on May 16, 2008

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Now I will alternate one image of my comic project "Silvia" with one photo or one non-comic drawing (2D or 3D), and this is the turn to photo today! When I just begin to practice photography, I was fascinated by the power of the stenope, this strange simple pinhole that gives images without any lens and with a total depth of field, regardless of the distance between the camera and the subject. 25 years ago I bought my ultrawideangle Pentax 3.5/15, that with its short focal length gave also a very advantageous depth of field. So when I seriously went digital, in 2006, and with the extremely rapid optical progress of digital SLR wideangle lenses, I couldn’t wait buying the fantastic Sigma 4-5.6/10-20, that my friend Richardphotos had enjoyed before, with a series of enchanting shots. With 106° diagonal angle and an unmatched depth of field for a SLR, the zoom created by the lens genius who is Sigma’s manager and mathematician, Dr Yamaki, can do marvels! As soon as I saw this Strombus shell on this seashore, near Perla Blanca, north of Remedios, Cuba, I made this attempt, that I had waited to do for decades. I did just a slight PW in Photoshop CS3 Extended to wipe two grass blades and improve contrast. There is no pasting at all, it is a true photo! I just displaced the shell from three feet.

I dedicate this pict to Fred255, in honor of his gallery which evidences the pleasure he has when he creates images, and for his promotion as the Photography Moderator.

Techdata: Nikon D70 with Sigma 4-5.6/10-20 Pro EX at shortest focal length, 1/250s at f/16 (at the risk of some diffraction with such a short focal length…), aperture-priority mode, auto-white balance, 200 ISO.