a couple questions for a new photographer

[newbie321]

i haven't gotten my slr yet, but i want to get into photography. i read a couple tutorials on the internet and i have a few questions...

why would you want a shallow dof, if you can just use a bigger aperature and use software to blur your image?

should i be shooting in RAW camera mode? I don't know what that is, but i heard someone talking about how they always take pics in raw mode

 

[sabbath999]

why would you want a shallow dof, if you can just use a bigger aperature and use software to blur your image?

I need to just shoot myself right now.

 

[newbie321]

why would you want a shallow dof, if you can just use a bigger aperature and use software to blur your image?

I need to just shoot myself right now.

Like I said, I'm new and there are a lot of things I don't understand.

Thanks for your input though.

 

[reznap]

I'll treat you like you're not a troll even though I know better.

You'd want a real shallow depth of field because it looks different than photoshopped blur. Also, a bigger aperture will give you more 'lol background defocus' - not less.

RAW mode is an uncompressed format, allowing you to edit with a bit more freedom and a lot less loss in quality.

 

[newbie321]

I'll treat you like you're not a troll even though I know better.

You'd want a real shallow depth of field because it looks different than photoshopped blur. Also, a bigger aperture will give you more 'lol background defocus' - not less.

RAW mode is an uncompressed format, allowing you to edit with a bit more freedom and a lot less loss in quality.

I meant to say a smaller aperature. But thanks for your response.

 

[mrpink]

i read a couple tutorials on the internet and i have a few questions...

You need to read a few more....

Here is a good start. Watch the videos linked in this thread.

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...o-gallery/224298-any-noobies-should-look.html









p!nK

 

[GeorgieGirl]

why would you want a shallow dof, if you can just use a bigger aperature and use software to blur your image?

Lets go with this question for now....

Here's the idea...it takes about a few moments to set the aperture on a camera to allow for a nice blur, aka bokeh, aka shallow dof. In many instances we want this effect.

Now if it takes just a few short moments to achieve this via a simple setting and voila, why would you want to take an extended amount of extraordinary time to fix your own failed photo for something you could have easily and basically done *right* to begin with?

So lets say you are supposed to be at work at 9am. You get up at 7am and can be there with time to spare if you take the train. But you decide to take the bus. So you get there at 11am and now you have to work until 8pm just to make up the time.

You were up in enough time to get there easily. You had the option to take the best transportation to get you there simply and easily. You chose to take some obscure path and with a penalty for doing something so basic and avoidable.

Get the downside to letting the consequence resolution become the primary path?

 

[katerolla]

i haven't gotten my slr yet, but i want to get into photography. i read a couple tutorials on the internet and i have a few questions...

why would you want a shallow dof, if you can just use a bigger aperature and use software to blur your image?

should i be shooting in RAW camera mode? I don't know what that is, but i heard someone talking about how they always take pics in raw mode

Q1
Let say you're at a wedding and shoot 2000 images and you need 700 of those to have a shallow dof, if it take you 5min to eddit each photo you have just added 58.5 extra hour to your work load, this will leave you with very little to no time to do any other jobs in that week.

Q2
I shoot in jpeg and raw, I would shoot in jpeg untill you understand digital a little batter.