Depth of Field Shots

This assignment gave me the most trouble out of every assignment I’ve done for this class so far. I first struggled to figure out what to shoot. I finally decided on these spray cans since they have text on them and would be a good way to show depth of field.

I initially had a watermelon, a plant and a candle but these images turned out a lot better for the assignment. First I had to adjust the ISO for the appropriate lighting in the room. Then I had to adjust the f-stop to the lowest setting the camera had. Next I changed the lens to the longer lens.

I then had to move the cans around to create better depth of field. I originally had the cans too close together which didn’t allow for the fuzziness to show depth of field. I then had to figure out where I would be able to shoot from.

I stood far away from the cans in order to get the perfect shot. This didn’t work so I then went prone. This allowed me to finally secure these three shots for this assignment. I figured out that with a lens that can go down to an f-stop of 2.8 or lower I would not have had the issues I had with a lens that only went down to 4.0. This being the case I had to create the depth of field versus the camera creating it for me.