Week 3 Homework

The homework for this week is to post an image or two showing the use of depth of field. Remember, the lower the aperture, the lower (more shallow) the depth of field, and the higher the aperture, the more expansive the depth of field will appear in your images.

This is an example is using depth of field to show a wide range of clarity, something the human eye can't always do for us.

This is an image I took this weekend using a low aperture creating a low depth of field. You see the foreground and background are blurred out, while the middle is in focus.

I would like you all to take new photos this week and weekend to post instead of finding ones you have already taken. I like to see you guys out there working through the kinks first hand. Please email me if you all have any questions or come across a problem you can't solve.

Also, if you are interested for next class, post an image that you really like and you aren't quite sure how they did that.

For example:

I sure hope everyone can make it to the last class!! See you then.

Rainy Day

Here is a catch all photograph.  A little bit of stop action and a little bit of depth of field.

To create this Stop Action I knew I was going to need a super fast shutter speed.  I tried at 2000th of a second and the drops were still blurry.  So in order to get a faster shutter speed (about 5000th of a second) I had to bump up my ISO to 3200!  (hence the noise).  However I was able to capture a single raindrop breaking at my fingertip.

To create the depth of field I had to have a low shutter, in this case f-1.4.  Because I was using a HIGH shutter speed, to compensate for exposure I was able to use a LOW aperture.  This made it easy to capture the stop action and low depth of field.  Your camera lenses may only go as low as f-3.5, but you can still capture great shallow depth of field by zooming in (focal length) or moving in closer to your subject, with the background a good distance away.

Happy Thanksgiving and can't wait to see what you post!

beach

splash

rule of 1/3s

cart wheel

rule of thirds