This time I had to find a scene with depth, and one of the suggestions in the course material was a wood full of trees. So despite the miserable damp weather and dull grey light, I marched off to Castle Clough woods, which are about a ten minute walk from my house. After a lot of searching and a bit of trial and error, I eventually found a composition that would show three distinct depths of field (foreground, middle and background).
With my 18-55mm lens, and the camera set to a wide aperture of f/5.3, I found that I had to get very close to the berries in the foreground. This meant placing the tripod in the middle of a Hawthorn bush, so this turned out to be quite a painful exercise, but I think I got some nice shots.
Out of the three photos, I think the middle focus is the best demonstration of depth of field, but my personal favorite is the foreground focus. I like that the detail is in the corner, and as you look towards the center you can see how the focus changes. It also makes a very good computer wallpaper, it's on my desktop background as I speak.
If the thumbnail links are missing, view full image on the Flickr set for this exercise
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| TAOP-Intro-Ex2-1 Focus on the foreground |
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| TAOP-Intro-Ex2-2 Focus on the mid-ground |
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| TAOP-Intro-Ex2-3 Focus on the Background |
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