Mai Chau - Vietnam

[kimchi]

Mai Chau is located in a fertile valley 3 hours SE of Hanoi

1

Mai Chau -1090606 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

2

Mai Chau -1090653 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

3

Mai Chau -1090808 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

4

Mai Chau -1090730 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

5

Mai Chau -1090800 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

6

Mai Chau -1090725 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr

7

Mai Chau -1090806 by Creative Vacuum, on Flickr


C&C welcome

[pierovera]

You've got some nice shots there, I especially like #4, it's quite a great composition. It's interesting though, how at only f/7.1 you could get everything foreground to background sharp. I like the last one as well, the design on those dresses (if that's the appropriate name) are great. Nice job

[kimchi]

Thanks for the comments, Pierovera.

For the deep DOF landscape you're referring to, I used 9mm at f/7.1 on a m4/3 body. This is equivalent to around 18mm f/14 on a 35mm camera. I was crouched behind the edge of the rice field and focused a couple of metres into it. According to http://dofmaster.com/dofjs.html this creates a DOF from around half a metre to infinity, so everything is in sharp focus. In fact, I could have probably used f/5 and still had sufficient DOF.

One of the benefits of cropped sensors and UWA lenses!

[pierovera]

Of course, I forgot that you use a M4/3 camera, how dumb