Depth of Field
For this assignment, we had to take eight pictures that demonstrated shallow depth of field. Shallow depth of field is where only part of the picture is in focus, usually the foreground or subject. This effect ca be achieved by a large aperture. We were also supposed to give our zoom and aperture settings, and say approximately how far away we were from the subject. Sorry if the settings look a little weird, my camera does not let me control aperture and also doesn't measure it's zoom, so I have to estimate. Hope that's OK.
In this photo, I was about six centimeters away from the nearest coin and totally zoomed out. I shot this indoors on a dark rainy day, but I didn't want that to be too apparent, so I put my camera on outdoor settings to warm up the picture a little.
I just had to take picture of this! I mean, Sprite, Root Beer, and Coca- Cola flavored Chap-stick? What!?! This was shot in the same conditions as the last photo, but this time, I was about five inches away from the Sprite chap-stick, and zoomed halfway out.
Same chap-stick, same lighting, larger aperture. In this picture I was totally zoomed in, so I had to be about nine inches away, so I could get the subject in focus.
In case you can't tell, this is a bottle. With a cork. There is also a ship in it, but you can't you can't see it, unfortunately. My aperture was a little smaller than in the previous photo, and I am back to zoomed in halfway again, five-ish inches away. I am still inside with the same lighting.
The sun came out! Yay! So I took my camera outside and photographed the new spring flowers. My aperture is even smaller in this one than it was before, but my zoom settings are the same.
Larger aperture, same lighting, same zoom.
A bit smaller aperture, and now zoomed out all the way. Bout three inches away from the branch
Larger aperture again, same zoom but closer to the branch, about 4 centimeters away.