Earlier this year I purchased a 85mm (AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR) Nikon lens. The main goal was to get sharper images than I was getting with my 18-200.
My first excursion with the lens outside of Grandpa's Dungeon was to the Detroit Model Railroad Club. I had grand visions of what the day would bring.
I didn't do much to this image with respect to sharpness and bokeh. If I remember right, this was taken on a tripod with a remote release. To help maintain the sharpness, I didn't do any smoothing. In my past train photos, I've photo stacked to get the image entirely in focus. So this is different.
The vitals: 85mm, 1/15th, f/5.0, ISO 800. Put that in the DOF blender with my distance of 3 ft and that gives a DOF of about one inch. That is probably pretty close to correct.
When going through some shots to work on, I chose this one because of the sharpness of the front of the train. I also chose to process the shot entirely with On One. The exposure didn't need much work as the light is pretty even all around. i was going through all the filters in On One when I stumbled on this color shade. For what ever reason, this combination with the existing colors works for me.
In the past, I might have warmed or cooled an image a few points but that is as much as I've ever used for a total color shift. This is new to me and I'll have to remember it.
On many fronts, this is a different photo from me. Maybe I need to explore more?
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