Friday, May 03, 2024
By Mike Moats Photography
When I was in the art show biz for seven years, I sold thousands of my images. I averaged 25 shows a year, and the smallest attended show would draw 25,000 and the largest crowds were at the Ann Arbor Art Fair that drew 500,000 attendees.
In the first year I hung some framed images of my soft-focus flower images alongside of the everything in focus images.
On a few occasions I overheard different customers talking about the out of focus images and didn't understand them and thought I must not know what I'm doing because these few images were not sharp throughout.
After that first year all the soft-focus images were removed from the booth and replaced with everything in focus images.
No one was buying the soft-focus images, only the everything in focus images. This is partly why you see my style of shooting tend to be all in focus shot at f/32.
My thought is that most people photograph subjects with their phone's camera, or point and shoot cameras, and what those cameras do best is get everything in focus.
So, they figure when they make photos, they are all in focus, so how come this photographer in an art show can't get his images all in focus with better equipment.
It's like you're shooting at f/32 with those systems.
I photographed my tripod set-up shooting flowers on the side of my house, and instead of using one of my cameras to take the picture, I just used my cell phone.
Just like shooting my cameras at f/32 the cell phone captured everything in focus from front all the way to the arborvitaes which were about 30 yards in the background.
So, my cell phone camera is like shooting my cameras at f/32.
Here is the flower I was shooting.
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