With Rowan's busy schedule, its difficult to catch him when he's taking his nap. However, in between his Pilates class and brunch, I managed to snap a rare shot of him sleeping.On a side note - Because I wanted to incorporate photography in this, not simply photos but also the art and technique. I wanted to use this photo to bring up what is called Depth of Field. If you look you can see that Rowans blanket is mostly out of focus, his face is mostly in focus and the background behind him is again completely out of focus. That shallow area that is mostly in focus is called Depth of Field. A shallow D.O.F is much desired in portrait photography. It can be manipulated in Photoshop but it doesn't look as natural.
To achieve this effect you can do one of these things (or both to increase the effect)
1. Back up and zoom in. The further in you zoom the less DOF you have. Great for portraits.
2. Open your aperture all the way up (put it on the lowest number) your camera may or may not have that manual capability. If it doesn't put it to "Portrait" mode and it will somewhat do it for you automatically. The aperture on the lens I used can be opened up much more than most lenses. This is how I was able to achieve that effect.
Try it out.
4 comments:
LOVE shallow DOFs! :-) Any advice on holding the subject still enough? ;-) (What am I talking about, anyway? We still haven't replaced our toddler-ized camera, LOL...)
Very, very cool! I took a photo class in HS, but that was *mumbling* years ago, and I've forgotten so much - thanks for posting such great info! :-)
Great shot! I had no idea the little man was so busy already! he he
Jon you crack me up. I like how you made his blanket out of focus so that you can pay more attention to the primary subject in the photo, oh I mean the adorable baby.
Great picture!!!..I will try it out!
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