Minimum Depth of Field - Work Diary

When researching minimum depth of field, I found that you had to look at three different aspects to carry it out. These are maximum aperture, which shows the speed of the lens. Maximum Zoom, which means if you want to take the picture from further away than of a close up, you just step back and finally you have to be close to the subject. This is to ensure that you have them in subject as appose to the background being most in focus. When taking this image, I had to take several at different distances to see which one I preferred. It was harder than I expected to get the perfect background, so to enhance it, I changed the curves and levels to brighten it up. I also changed the colour levels to create a contrast and made Josh wear a black hoody so that he stood out from the background. In the future, I wish to take more images like this on different backgrounds and in different locations. I feel like this image went particularly well, as it enabled me to see how minimum depth of field works and how I can alter the settings on my camera to see a change in the result of the image that came out. In the future, I want to see how it will work on images such as those in my image bank, where they feature plants and animals. 

 

Minimum Depth of Field - Image Bank

Minimum Depth of Field is the amount of distance between the nearest and the farthest objects that appear in sharp focus of an image. This is done by making the objects stand out in the image, as the rest is usually blurred out. I found that those who take these images, usually take them of natural objects, such as plants or animals. The first collective group of images I found all followed similar patterns, they are both flowers and leaves and are significantly further from the background. They all use the formal elements of colour in their images, as the bold pastel colours stand out from the dark green backgrounds. The first image, shows a number of flowers which are all in different amounts of focus. The second image differs from this as although we can see the range of flowers that are in the background, only one of them is in focus. Therefore, the depth in between the flowers is much greater as we lose focus the further they go back. In the final of the three images, there is leaves instead of flowers and we also see more shadows than on the other images. 

In these images, the photographers use minimum depth of field to show off different animals in their habitat. The first image shows a fish in an aquarium, I like the use of colours in this image as there is so many in the background that brighten up the rest of the image. I also like the depth in the fish itself, where the face is the most focal part of the image and the rest of the body is blurred out, however you can still see the pattern on the fish. The second image shows a lady bird, and the reflection of it on the water, however it is much smaller and the composition is laid out so that it is less greater in the frame than the other images I have looked at. The final image is much the opposite of the second, in which the snake is mostly all in focus, and there is not a lot of the background shown in the image. 

Minimum Depth of Field

Maximum Aperture

Maximum Zoom

Close to Subject