The sun was out for about 10 minutes yesterday afternoon so I went outside with my camera and took some snaps to demonstrate how aperture effects depth of field.
I like photographing nature and you often see shallow depths of field in shots of flowers, trees, etc.
These were my favourite of the bunch...
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I was stood quite far away from this which also gave that really shallow depth of field.
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I like the composition of this image but i definately could have achieved a shallower depth of field! The background is distracting and taking the focus away from the subject. I'd like the rope to stand out more than this.
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I'm happy with this one as the orange of the flower really does stand out and is a contrast against the blur of green behind it.
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I like this image but i definatelty should have tried it with a wider aperture to get a shallower depth of field. I would have liked the logs towards the back to be a lot more out of focus than this!
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I'm not too happy with this one as the background is VERY distracting and the subject kind of blends in to it.
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I have re-visited this post to add some more images that I have taken more recently to demonstrate shallow depth of field, using wide apertures.
You can be really creative with shallow depth of field, as it creates images that aren't true to life and aren't how we see them. It is also used by photographers to indicate where and what in the image they want to viewer to be looking at.
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