{"id":585,"date":"2018-07-26T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:21:57","slug":"fun-with-depth-of-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Depth of Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

While trying out a new lens for my system (a 35mm f\/1.4), I went out to take some photos of some hay bales I had seen before, close to an old and abandoned house. I waited for sunset to have some good light, and off I went.<\/p>\n

I tried some compositions, including the one below, catching the Moon and bicycle.<\/p>\n

\"House<\/a>
House and Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having such a fast lens available, I then thought about using it at extremes of aperture range, in this case, from f\/16 to f\/1.4. The results are shown below, in the following order: f\/16, f\/1.4 (maintaining focus on the bike), and f\/1.4 (focusing on the house).<\/p>\n

\"Resting<\/a>
Resting #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Resting<\/a>
Resting #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Resting<\/a>
Resting #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally, when shooting such subjects, I tend to favour  a deep depth-of-field, so that both the foreground and background are acceptably sharp. However, later on, when I looked at the images, my favourite of the series was #2, focused on the bike, and shot wide open at f\/1.4. In my mind, the bicycle and hay bale are given more prominence, while the house is still there, identifiable. All bathed by the warm and golden light of the sunset.<\/p>\n

Talking about sunset, this is what it looked like that day. Wonderful.<\/p>\n

\"Sunset\"<\/a>
Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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While trying out a new lens for my system (a 35mm f\/1.4), I went out to take some photos of some hay bales I had seen before, close to an old and abandoned house. I waited for sunset to have some good light, and off I went. I tried some compositions, including the one below, … Continue reading Fun with Depth of Field<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}