Photo Skills A: Depth of Field Photography

Elements of Depth of Field

The DOF (Depth of Field) can be controlled by the Aperture, the Shutter Speed and the ISO.
The DOF is divided into 4 categories, Incremental Aperture Settings, Foreground to Background, Foreground Vs Background and Shallow.

As i learned from my research, large depth of field means that most of your image will be in focus whether it’s close to your camera or far away. Depth of field means that one part of the image will be in focus and the rest will be fuzzy.

In order to apply what i have learned i took photographs to show the DOF.

F 5,6 ISO 200 S 1/120 135mm

F 5,6 ISO 100 S 1/125 79mm

F 5,6 ISO 250 S1/160 106mm

F 5,6 ISO 125 S 1/125 85 mm

The photographs are showing the DOF. By changing the measures of the aperture ISO and shutter speed the DOF is different as each element creates different results to a photograph. However by using different measures the photograph could be fuzzier or be focused in a different place or everything be in focus.

Foreground vs Background

This category of the DOF shows how a photograph could be focus to the frond of a photograph or to the background.

For both photographs the measures were: F 5,6 ISO 200 S 1/ 160 135 mm

I show those photographs in my class and i did not get good critics according to the subject as the flowers are not fresh. However i wanted to show the difference between the focused background and foreground and in my opinion those photographs are a good example.

Foreground to Background

This category of the Depth of Field refers to the photographs where everything is in focus.

F / 22 ISO 200 S 1/ 30

F /16 ISO 200 S 1/ 20

F/ 16 ISO 200 S 1/ 30

For succeeding to take a photograph where everything is in focus i realized that the Aperture must be high.

Shallow

This category of the Depth of Field has to do with the selected area which is in focus.

The photograph is blur and only a selected area is clean.
Viewers eyes concentrate first on the sharp areas of the photo.