tvernuccio opened this issue on Jan 01, 2005 ยท 15 posts
LostPatrol posted Sun, 02 January 2005 at 12:04 AM
The two images look about the same to me as far as DOF is concerned. Getting the DOF that you want depends on a few things. 1. The larger the aperture (f stop) of the lens the shallower the DOF will be and the smaller the aperture (f stop)the greater the DOF will be For example a large aperture would be f2.8 and a small f22 This will of course depend on the camera that you are using and or the lens if using an SLR type camera. 2. The longer the focal length of the lens the shallower the DOF will be. 3. The closer the subject is to the lens the shallower the DOF will be. If you are using a compact camera getting a shallow DOF is more difficult than it is with a SLR type camera, however many compact digital cameras have a macro mode which should make it easier to obtain a good DOF with background blur (boken)