Ed Rooney Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Have any of you had QC rejects on images with selective focus? I'm thinking about closeups of tabletop food in particular. I would like to do more of that, but I'm a bit worried about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Have any of you had QC rejects on images with selective focus? I'm thinking about closeups of tabletop food in particular. I would like to do more of that, but I'm a bit worried about it. No, QC understands DoF quite well. If it's clearly intentional, and apparent in a thumbnail, I'd have no concerns about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFL Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 As long as a part (main ficus) is in focus, it will pass. Recently I myself loaded some and they were all passed. You might be able to see a few on page 1 of my port. Sung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Go for it Edo! All my shallow focused food shots have passed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 Terrific! I've been meaning to ask this question for some time now. It will widen my approach considerably. Artistically, it gives me another option and it will let me shoot with a wider f-stop in low light. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) I’ve shot food with selective focus forever, and it always passes. edit: see W9G1ET, focus on back beet. RXXT32 with focus on the front shrimp. Edited October 28, 2019 by Betty LaRue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 My food shots are selective focus but only because I did not get full DOF. The important part of the image is sharp though. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdh Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Not only selective focus / shallow DOF is acceptable, QC also accepts up to entirely blurred / out of focus. Some time ago we had a thread with blurred pictures, to give an idea of the acceptable range of blurred images. Have not been here a while, so there may have been others since, but this is the one I remember. https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/5283-your-favorite-blurry-image/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I do blur-for-motion shots often, but was not sure about my food snaps. Here one waiting in QC. The building is a touch soft but the truck is sharp. You can read the menus. An off-subject question: does anyone know what these zombie signs are about??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Ed Rooney said: An off-subject question: does anyone know what these zombie signs are about??? HALLOWEEN? Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I can't find any information about these signs. Alamy has only a few samples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: I can't find any information about these signs. Alamy has only a few samples. Presumably it's aspoof road warning sign, seasonal as Allan says. Triangles are for a warning- they have the point upwards, except for the "give way" (yield) which has the point down. A circular sign means a prohibition. They all have a red border. https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/learning-to-drive/the-highway-code-uk-road-signs-and-meanings/ You don't need to heed them, but your bus driver does. Edited October 30, 2019 by spacecadet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Mark, the sign I captured is on a walking street near Liverpool ONE and John Lewis, no traffic involved. I don't think it was put up for Halloween. I just want to tag it correctly. Oddly, I had a similar problem in Chinatown, in NY. I asked over 50 Asian locals what this thing meant before someone was able to tell me. A good luck charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Myford Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) Zombie sign: My guess would be that it's part of an art installation. Another possibility would be some form of advertising or prop for a horror experience venue like the London Dungeon, but it seems a bit subtle for that. Edit: Another possibility, which I now think I remember hearing about but could be imagining, is to warn people of 'zombie walkers' looking at their mobiles rather than where they are going. Edited October 30, 2019 by DJ Myford Additional Information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Interesting guesses, David. But I can't put guesses in my tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Looks similar to the one NYC, which I remember -- a Chinese "knot" or good luck charm. See the gold one in the centre of image below. I'm not up on my zombie paraphernalia, however. 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Could it have anything to do with this? https://www.liverpool-one.com/zombies-unleashed#story-video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) That must be it, Harry. Thanks. I'll have a closer look tomorrow. Update: There are a lot of shops and groups of shops trying to find ways to get back walk-in customers. That's what this zombie sign is about. They are trying to make shopping entertaining. Edited November 1, 2019 by Ed Rooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Great, I had to enter into a strange Zombie world to discover it but I've come out unscathed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 On 26/10/2019 at 12:23, Ed Rooney said: Have any of you had QC rejects on images with selective focus? No. I take a lot of moving subject images some of which are moving very fast, frequently with a lot of motion blur which could easily be seen as out of focus but never had a failure. Sometimes the subject is out of focus over much its length apart from a focused detail, and even that passes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 16 hours ago, Avpics said: No. I take a lot of moving subject images some of which are moving very fast, frequently with a lot of motion blur which could easily be seen as out of focus but never had a failure. Sometimes the subject is out of focus over much its length apart from a focused detail, and even that passes. Great shot. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 On 30/10/2019 at 17:23, Ed Rooney said: An off-subject question: does anyone know what these zombie signs are about??? Don't know about their use in this particular instance, Edo, but I'd instal a few hundreds of them outside the Australian federal parliament . . . hmmm, on second thoughts, that would only be half appropriate--zombies are brain-less, yes, but not heart-less . . . DD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizBrown Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 See "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and various other things generally in the SF/Fantasy fandoms. Wikipedia has an article on the zombie apocalypse if you want to add some information about the cultural phenomenon generally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 This shot was my last sale in October. Coincidentally, it shows blur-for-action. But selective focus (DoF) is what I was asking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 34 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: This shot was my last sale in October. Coincidentally, it shows blur-for-action. But selective focus (DoF) is what I was asking about. Ahhh! The good old days Edo. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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