Thursday, January 27, 2011
Workshop 2
This exercise is to teach manual focusing. I kind of had trouble with this one...These pictures are from my 3rd go at it. A...I am not happy with any of my available surface areas as back drops and lighting was never stable (darn weather)...B...the manual focusing part I really can't see much of a difference...and I am a bit confused with how far from the object my lens needed to be. I hope to square away these questions and maybe try it one more time. But for now this is what I have...
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Hi, Jen. I think the first 3 are perfect - you can see that the focus is on the first, second, then third; in the last two, your focus seems to be on the second for both. Part of the problem is that I think the varying sizes is messing up your ability to get a clear focus, and part of it might be you are over-thinking the exercise. Here's an alternate version that might be easier for you. Set your camera to the same settings (f3.5, ISO 400, and whatever shutter speed you need) but use saucers instead of stacking dolls. Focus on the front edge of each saucer. One thing you will notice is that your depth of field appears to increase as you focus on objects that are further back. This is normal, as your depth of field remains constant even though in perspective, the objets looks smaller and therefore like there is a deeper DOF. I'll post an example in a little bit, but the lighting will be crappy because it's dark and I'm using the available light in my house...
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