Photography Chat

but the amount of area in the world that is blurred stays the same when you crop or use a teleconverter.

Cropping DOES indeed play a role in the DOF that is visible to a viewer of a final image, which is ultimately what matters in the end. Even though the physical DOF as produced by a particular focal length and aperture does not change, what is finally produced does.

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@chills42 It's the internet, we're all talk here

We need to encourage some of the higher rep users to flag things for closure, as appropriate a bit more

I like to reduce the luck factor :)

Successfully converted 2 people from nikon to Canon. Keeping up the good fight

why is it when ever I take photos of corn or wheat fields my pictures come out grainy?

Hey, another thought... I'm sure we have a lot of users on flickr, so I just put together a group where we can share on flickr.

a gray scale Bokeh effect on a dark backgound color may be good. I think some have suggested that already

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you just bought her an AlienWare PC instead of an iPad

@JeffAtwood you need to get a DSLR man

excellent, I was going to ask a question and the title search on the ask form nailed it for me :P

@Jin: Nice share buttons, thank!

@jrista Yep, upvote says "this is a useful answer". You don't have to score only the very best one.

I have also been trying to give votes to new members

I suspect that in time photos will become seasonal based on what they're shooting that week/month

hopefully a range of members will be featured

tag them all the same... perhaps featured-photo

What are some elevator pitch of other stack-overflow sites?

This is a "survive beta" type question

Caring about health of the community isn't a primary interest of users. They come here to get answers.

yeah, that's also why i've been less active - to give newer people chance to answer