Shallow depth of field: the wire brush
This photo is taken if a wire brush in Mr. Ramos’ engineering design room. I had the camera set on f-10 to capture this image. I used an ISO of about 600, and had the camera set on fluorescent lighting. I used these setting because the room had a lot of windows and lights making the room fairly bright. If I had been using a point and shoot camera I would have set the camera on macro setting so that the front came into focus but the back did not.
Larger Depth of Field: "The Marching Band"
I took this picture in class with the use of the light boxes and the overhead lights, I lined up the little toys so that I would be able to experiment with bringing different objects into focus. I set the camera on f-3 to take this image. My camera was set on an ISO setting of about 1600 to be able to capture enough light. I had to play with the settings for white balance due to the intensity/color of the light, but I ended up setting it on incandescent light setting. If I were on a point and shoot camera I would have set the camera on landscape to be able to incorporate the whole picture while keeping it all in focus.
The shallow depth of field picture is a much better picture as it has better composition. You might want to use a shallow depth so that your picture becomes more interesting with the contrast of blurred and focused objects. You might want to use a larger depth of field if you wanted to keep the whole picture in focus.
This photo is taken if a wire brush in Mr. Ramos’ engineering design room. I had the camera set on f-10 to capture this image. I used an ISO of about 600, and had the camera set on fluorescent lighting. I used these setting because the room had a lot of windows and lights making the room fairly bright. If I had been using a point and shoot camera I would have set the camera on macro setting so that the front came into focus but the back did not.
Larger Depth of Field: "The Marching Band"
I took this picture in class with the use of the light boxes and the overhead lights, I lined up the little toys so that I would be able to experiment with bringing different objects into focus. I set the camera on f-3 to take this image. My camera was set on an ISO setting of about 1600 to be able to capture enough light. I had to play with the settings for white balance due to the intensity/color of the light, but I ended up setting it on incandescent light setting. If I were on a point and shoot camera I would have set the camera on landscape to be able to incorporate the whole picture while keeping it all in focus.
The shallow depth of field picture is a much better picture as it has better composition. You might want to use a shallow depth so that your picture becomes more interesting with the contrast of blurred and focused objects. You might want to use a larger depth of field if you wanted to keep the whole picture in focus.