Project: Focus Exersise: Focus with a set aperture

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Picture 5



 

Using a fence for the scene for this exercise I used a wide setting of an f-stop of f5.60. In picture 4 I focused on the closest fence post which left the depth of the garden out of focus. In picture 5, I reversed this and focused towards the plants at the length of the garden.

Both photos give a different feeling, the first seems to say it’s a picture of a fence which, by the way, has a garden of sorts next to it. In the second the focusing in the distant detail draws the eye through the length to more objects in the distance. This portrays a garden with interesting features which may be lurking in the distance if you let your eye travel the blurred fence to it.

Second attempt.

Not being totally happy with the fence/garden photos, I had another attempt at showing the changing aspects of focus on a view. Now dark outside I took two photographs of colouring pencils. Picture 6 focuses on pencils in the distance and picture 7 the first and nearest pencil. Both were taken at f5.60, which seems to be the widest angle my camera is happy with. Earlier attempts at both scenes with a smaller F-stop left the photo looking a poorer quality. I was unsure how to rectify this through the camera settings.



Picture 7



Picture 6



                                                                              

My favourite is picture 7 as this indicates to me that there is a pencil at finger tip reach and an unlimited number in the infinitive distance.