Weekly challenge 5/15 - 5/21 Shallow vs Deep DOF

[SquarePeg]

Hi all. I’m traveling this week and was planning to extend last week’s challenge but it seems to be one of the posts that was lost. So instead we are going to post photos using shallow dof too isolate your subject and/or to blur a busy background. Post the shallow dof shot and post the same photo taken at f11.

As always new photos only for the weekly challenge please. Get out there and shoot!

 

[Original katomi]

Have a good time

 

[PJM]

On my own travels here, wandering around a desert arboretum in Utah. I saw these and thought of the challenge. These are maybe not the best examples of isolation but I thought they were interesting.
1/500, f/6.3 (lowest lens will go), ISO 100, 300 mm

I think there was too little DOF for the bud cluster. I think I like this next one better.
1/500, f/11, ISO 400, 300mm

And this is what they look like when they flower.

 

[photoflyer]

I shot George Washington University versus Georgetown University baseball on a perfect Tuesday evening. I took this one just for this post.

Taken on a 70-200 f 2.8 at f2.8 and f 11 from behind the 1st base dugout. For a wide crop like this it doesn't make as much difference as a tight crop (not shown). In tight the shallow depth of field really sets the player apart from the background.

 

[CherylL]

f 2.2

Quincy by Cheryl, on Flickr

Not f11, but f8.0 I didn't read the directions correctly and I'll delete if you want. Will try again tomorrow

 

[photoflyer]

Not f11, but f8.0 I didn't read the directions correctly and I'll delete if you want. Will try again tomorrow

It makes the point.

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

 

[mjcmt]

24mm f8

 

[photoflyer]

Anyone have an f 1.0 or less lens? Now's the time to show it off.

 

[smithdan]

An all too typical late May day here in Southwest Alberta. Around freezing temps and snow for the past thirty hours.

Gotta love that Helios 44-2, here with a 10mm extention tube, open wide at f2, then F11.

 

[smithdan]

..same setup on the other side of the yard..

..then without the tube..

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

I broke out the tubes today too for the first time in months.

 

[CherylL]

f/2.2, 320ss, ISO640

f/11, 320ss, ISO 4000

 

[photoflyer]

f/2.2, 320ss, ISO640

Yup, f 2.2 is the difference between a photo that looks like it was shot on a cell phone and one that was shot on a camera. That reminds me, I've not seen my chippy yet this spring.