![]() 01/24/2016 at 14:25 • Filed to: Photography | ![]() | ![]() |
An exercise in depth of field. Poor light.
Canon 5D, Sigma EX 50mm f/1.4, ISO 640
f/1.4
f/2.8
f/4
![]() 01/24/2016 at 14:38 |
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Nice work
![]() 01/24/2016 at 15:08 |
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DOF is fun to play with
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The effect will be more noticeable if you put something in the background that isn’t blank.
![]() 01/24/2016 at 17:37 |
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Better light.
![]() 01/24/2016 at 17:44 |
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It’s just a desk lamp.
![]() 01/24/2016 at 21:41 |
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What aperture setting?
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3.1. The model is a bit bigger than your bus, with something as low as what you used very little would be in focus.
![]() 01/24/2016 at 22:53 |
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At f/1.4 the DOF is something like 2 mm. Extremely shallow. And the DOF at a given aperture isn’t the same for the same aperture on a different lens. If a Canon L lens didn’t cost
$1,500
, I’d love to play with one. Oh, the guns and cameras — and cars — I’d buy if they’d drawn my numbers on that damned PowerBall thing. I had all of my plans already made.
![]() 01/24/2016 at 23:04 |
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Those pictures I posted were taken with a $200 fixed-lens Fujifilm. I got to borrow a Nikon D300 for an afternoon once though and it was glorious: