I went to the park yesterday with the whole purpose of focusing in focus. I wasn't trying to get any great shots, but just using different focal lengths of the same scene. I was using my 18-250mm zoom lens and the shallowest depth of field I could get was f/6.3. Maralee
Weekly Challenge: Focus
I enjoy taking photographs of flowers. Sometimes I like to have the entire flower in focus and sometimes I like to have only a portion of the flower in focus. These are two shots of the same flower, same place, same time. One I shot at f/4.0 for a shallow depth of field and the …
Day 216 – Macro Lupines
I have one lupine plant that is blooming right now. It had the perfect shades of lavender and purple - my favorite colors. I've done lupines previously but this time I thought I would get up very close and use different apertures. I was going for a narrow depth of field and throwing the background …
Day 168 – More Macro from the Garden
I took these photos this morning while there was still some water drops left over from the watering last night. Our strawberry plants are starting to develop the fruit. The only problem I have with the strawberry plants is that we don't have enough of them to get much fruit. We probably will get a …
Day 167 – Working with Macro and Depth of Field
I'm still working with my new macro lens and depth-of-field. I've found that even when I use a small aperture, the depth-of-field is still fairly shallow with the macro lens. And with a large aperture, the depth-of-field is miniscule. And it changes quite a bit just moving a few inches from the subject. All of …
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