Vocabulary:
Depth of field: this is the range of distance in a photo that appears acceptably sharp or “in focus”
Photographers should use this setting, so it feels more inviting and warm to look at. It gives each picture taken with depth of field a different view and it’s more pleasing to look at.
When you use a short depth of field it makes the background blurry, making the front of the picture the focus and the back of the photo blurry. This gives focus to the main subject and highlights it. A photographer might like this if they want to show more detail in one object of its photo. A long depth of field shows more blurriness closest to the camera and shows the subject in the distance. This is especially cool for nature in general.
The top picture of the corn leaves shows a long depth of field. It doesn’t have really any blurriness. The one below it shows a short depth of field. This means that there is blurriness in the background but the main subject, which is the corn leaf, isn’t blurry. If you look at both the of the pictures, one of those pictures seems more aesthetic and inviting. Personally, I like the one with the short depth of field better because it again gives it an inviting feel to it. The other reason I don’t like the top one as much is because everything is the same and it feels like a more boring picture than the bottom one is.
Same thing with these books. The smaller depth of field has a more inviting feel to it while the bottom one is one that just feels like a lot of books in a library. I especially like these book photos because I like how aesthetic it feels. Though I don’t love reading books, I still like the cozy feel of them especially in this top photo
This picture shows a hose pump in the near distance. I took about six steps away and took this picture with a long depth of field. The bottom pictures are one about 2 steps from it. The differences in these two pictures are that they are taken from different distances, and they are taken with different depths of field.
This second pictures shows a close-up picture of the hose pump. It also has a smaller depth of field but because its closer up, you can’t really tell a difference. This bottom picture is different from the top picture because it shows a bit more detail because of how close the picture was taken.
The pictures above both have a small depth of field, which is why the background is blurry.
I consider this my favorite picture because I like how the ladder is blurry but then shows a clearly defined and detailed picture of the books. I also love the angle and how it aesthetically shows the books and ladder in one picture.
