Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | By: Jim Zuckerman
I find cows in Austria and Switzerland to be very curious. When I'm in their field, they have often approached me apparently without fear. This allows me to take extreme closeups, turning a normal scene into one with a tinge of comedy. Using a wide angle lens -- 16mm in this case -- very close to the subject distorts it in a way that, with cows, has to make you smile. Notice the depth of field here due to the width of the lens. Even when shooting wide open at f/2.8, the background isn't sharp but it's clearly defined. Given the fact that my lens was 6 inches from the cow's nose, this is pretty remarkable. My other settings were 1/100 and 400 ISO. There were two other cows in the picture that were partially blocked by the main subject, so I used the generative fill command to eliminate them. That made the picture better.
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