Editing - Depth of Field

Editing - Depth of Field

This photograph was over exposed in the first photograph I think. It didn't have the effect I wanted it too so I changed it by using these filters and effects:

Unsharp mask - to make everything a lot more focused.

Curves - to make the picture darker.

Hue/saturation - I made the saturation a bit higher (+4) and I made the picture a little bit darker (-13).

I loved this photograph so I didn't want to edit it too much, however I thought that little changes would make a lot of difference in this case, rather than over-editing a bad photo to try and improve it.

I used the filters/effects:

Levels - I used this to do white balance which improves the photographs a lot and makes the colours more realistic.

Hue/Saturation - I used this to make the colour "pop" a bit more as I was worried it looked a bit too muted. I made it more saturated (+18) and a bit darker (-9).

Contact Sheet - Depth of Field

Outside

Work Diary - Depth of Field

Work Diary - Depth of Field

I took photos of Depth of field today and yesterday, I was using a new camera that I've never used before so it took a while to get used to, I took photos for both wide and shallow depth of field, wide depth of field looked like most photos because the entire thing was in focus, however the shallow depth of field looked really good because it meant that depending on what I was focusing on, it dragged your eye to that thing. I did shoots in both the studio and the college campus, I did mostly shallow depth of field outside but I did both in the studio.

Progression: Next time I will take more photos outside because I only got 12, I will also try going to different places off campus to take photographs. However I did get 24 in the studio.

This photo is an example of shallow depth of field, I like this photo because the focus and the lighting is a lot better than some of my other photographs, you can see the camera in really good focus and the face and body in the background is a lot more blurry. I liked shallow depth of field a lot more than wide depth of field because you can actually see a difference in the foreground and the background in pictures using shallow depth of field.

This is probably my worst photograph, I couldn't control the lighting as much in this photo because I was outside and I think that the photo was too bright, additionally it's not really in focus, I don't think I had the settings correct when I took this photo.

Definition Post - Depth Of Field

Definition Post - Depth of Field

Depth of field is the front-to-back zone of a photograph where the image is sharp, when an object is out of this range it begins to lose focus. Shallow DOF is when the zone where it focuses is very small, a couple of inches or maybe a foot, deep DOF is when the included range is much larger, it can be the entire picture or a few feet.

The closer the subject to the camera, the more shallow the DOF.

This is quite a shallow DOF because only one of the people in the photo are very well focused, the others are getting out of focus.

This is also quite a shallow DOF, it is only focused on the one ball and the rest of the photo is very unfocused.

This is an example of wide DOF, it doesn't have any unfocused parts which works really well in this photograph, the photographer may have done this by making the aperture a high f-stop number like f22.

This is an example of shallow DOF as it is only a few inches long to fit the dragonfly.

Image Bank - Depth of Field

Image Bank - Depth of field

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This photograph is very well taken in my opinion because it has quite a shallow depth of field which works really well, we can see the man standing in very good focus but the background of the photo quickly gets out of focus after the man. I like this photograph because it isn't over or underexposed.

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This photo is of a dog, it is in very good focus and shows shallow depth of field really well, I like this photo a lot because there isn't any motion that ruins it and it's not over exposed and looks slightly dreary.

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This photo was taken using a wide depth of field, it's good because you can see all the details of the flowers as well as the globe structure and the sky. I think on some photos like this one a wide depth of field looks better because it shows you everything in the photograph.

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This example of wide depth of field works really well because the background is as important as the foreground, blurring some of the foreground would mean the eye would be dragged to the background or whatever object is in focus, although this works well for photographs with something in it that stands out, it doesn't work very well for photographs of landscapes like this.

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I like this photograph because I think it looks really nice, it's very simple and the photo isn't cluttered at all, we can see the dandelion is the main focus of this photo and anything else isn't important to the photo, this photograph inspires me to take more photographs using shallow depth of field because it can  look really good if done well like this one.

Contact Sheet - Depth of Field

Studio