{"id":18,"date":"2006-08-08T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-08-08T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T07:37:00","slug":"more-on-dof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/more-on-dof\/","title":{"rendered":"More on DOF."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well after a lot of positive emails about the previous post, I thought I would post another link to a very good explanation of Depth of Field. This one is a little more dtailed, naturally, but just as good a read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeincolour.com\/tutorials\/depth-of-field.htm\">www.cambridgeincolour.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember, DOF can greatly affect a photo. It helps to put the attention on a particular point. Also, it isn&#8217;t just things in the background that you can throw out of focus. Things in the foreground OOF can help a photo too. Here are a couple of examples.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/199534376\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 173px; height: 249px;\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/69\/199534376_d6b5c2353b_m.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a perfect example of the background thrown out of focus. I only wanted the sugar container in focus on that photo, so I set a low F stop, f\/5.6, and focussed on the container itself.<\/p>\n<p>You can still see the other sugar containers in the background, but they aren&#8217;t the focus of attention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/200303747\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/71\/200303747_3639eced85_m.jpg\" alt=\"Yes Sir\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"20\" width=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In this example, I have again gone for an f\/4.5 and focussed on the musician on the right and the one to the left is out of focus (OOF)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">I hope that helps<\/span>. I know when I realised you could actually control this sort of thing, my photos started to look better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well after a lot of positive emails about the previous post, I thought I would post another link to a very good explanation of Depth of Field. This one is a little more dtailed, naturally, but just as good a read. www.cambridgeincolour.com Remember, DOF can greatly affect a photo. It helps to put the attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}