his month's artistic challenge is "Depth of Field."
"Mastering depth of field is like masterinng a tennis serve or golf swing. Immediately you're in a different league. By controlling which parts of a picture are in focus, you can create great depth and drama,
achieved with perspective, focus and lighting here
"...as well as direct the viewer's attention to particular subjects.
achieved with perspective here
"Basically, depth of field is the acceptably sharp area in front of and behind the plane of focus...
achieved with perspective and focus here
"Untidy and distracting backgrounds can be thrown out of focus and individuals can be picked out from a group... Most single lens reflex cameras have a depth of focus preview buton to enable you to assess visually which areas are in focus."
Quote from "The Complete Photography Course" by Michael Joseph and Dave Saunders
So have fun experimenting and post your photos in which you have achieved "Depth of Field."
Rules:
- Must have an artistic quality that you would appreciate seeing at a museum.
- Can be altered or not.
- Please include your photographic or editing process so that we can learn from your experience.
- It may or may not be your own interpretation of a classical artwork, but not a downloaded original.
- Tag your entries with "Depth"
This competition will run from April 1, 2009 to April 30, 2009. They will be accepted ahead of time as long as they are properly tagged. Since this is a learning group, if any of you GatherVeterans ;) would like to share your "depth of field" techniques here, they would be appreciated also.
I'm looking forward to seeing your creative entries!
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Focus of one subject foreground with background softened.
Focus of subject background with foreground out of focus.
Focus of subject on left or right with the rest of the photo out of focus at varying degrees.
Or, hardest of all I think (although I could be wrong) everything from front to back of the photo in sharp and complete focus ... as if you could walk from the sharp flower in the foreground all the way past the horizon in the distance.
Mmmm.... soooo not really sure if I've understood it or described it correctly and I am not really sure if I know what I'm doing but ... I'm gonna go do it some more anyway. :)