Depth of field?

[DanielleZuni]

I'm in a high school class and our teacher asked us to take a photo with depth of field, where only the subject is in focus and the rest is blurry...any ideas that could help me? Examples of what I could do would help too. Thanks.

 

[Gaerek]

I'm in a high school class and our teacher asked us to take a photo with depth of field, where only the subject is in focus and the rest is blurry...any ideas that could help me?

Step back, zoom in, open up your aperture (lower f/number).

 

[I'm new to photos]

Here's an example pets are always good subjects and usually earn brownie points,well with my teacher at least.

 

[Big Mike]

Everyshot has a DOF. What you are looking for is a shallow DOF.

 

[nala]

People or pets are always great subjects for photos with a shallow depth of field. Here's an example of how to control your depth of field: The Snappy Mama Blog Archive How Aperture Affects Your Photos As you can see, stuffed monkeys also make great subjects when demonstrating this.

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The Snappy Mama

 

[gsgary]

Here's one of my partner shot at f1.4

 

[Dao]

You can find some examples of shadow DoF in this thread.
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photo-themes/25929-load-bokeh.html

 

[DScience]

 

[gsgary]

Don't get mixed up with bokeh and dof, if you look at the shot of my partner you will see bokeh in the top right hand side (white circles)

 

[anm90]

Here's another example of a photo with shallow DOF.

 

[matfoster]

find a isolated, freestanding object, but with some distance from background objects. stand/crouch near to it and focus on it. use a wide aperture (f3.5/2.8/1.8 etc).

 

[mrpink]

IMO shallow DOF looks best with a repeating pattern or subject (i.e. the over done line of crayons shot)

DScience posted a nice example as well.

p!nK

 

[kundalini]

It all depends on how you want to show your shallow DoF.


You can have the foreground out of focus.....

You can have the background out of focus.....​

Or you could go somewhere in between.....​

Hope this helps.​

 

[Dao]

Example of Shadow Depth of Field (DoF)
Macro insect shot.

It is a nymph of Zelus luridus (about 1/4 inch in size) walking on my mailbox.
Look at the texture of the mailbox (where the insect stand), you will see how shadow the DoF is.