DOF

Here is a great depth of field example and one that I use when shooting portraiture in order to through the background out of focus. This particular shot was taken in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbus OH last summer. I was walking out to the car and to my left was this goose standing on top of this pick-up truck, going quack... quack... quack! I grabbed my camera out of the back which had a 75-300 f/4.5-5.6 IS lens mounted and framed up. If I recall the first image was wide open (4.5) at about 80-100MM which gave me relatively good focus all around.

The second image was zoomed in at 300MM and I can not recall what the aperture was but is had decreased some from the zoom. By zooming the background is blurred giving the head of the goose the undistracted prominence it deserves.

I can only imaging what it would have looked like at 200MM and f/2.8 on my 70-200 2.8 IS lens. That is one of the wonderful things about photography. You take a great shot with certain equipment and when acquire a higher grad piece of gear you just have to wonder hows it would have looked with the better gear. That just perpetuates the need to go reshoot locations and images once visited.

Well, thats pretty much going to do it for this week. I have a show at the hotel tomorrow and I might just use it to catch up on some rest and fight this cough I have been battling since Wed night.

C U All Monday... Doug