Light: Activity 4

Find two examples of photographs, which make use of maximum depth of field, and two examples, which have very shallow depth of field.
Describe how the photographer’s selective use of aperture affects the subject in each of the photographs you have chosen.

Photo by Dustin Abbott

Photo by Kim Toews

These two first photos are examples of great depth of field. The photographers used a smaller f-stop setting, such as f22 or f16, in order to get a small aperture, which allows all or a majority of the photos of the landscaped to be in focus.

Photo by Bjørgulf Brevik

Photo by Sean Kelly

These two photos are examples of of shallow depth of field. The photographers had to use a smaller f-stop, such as f2 or f4, in order to have a large aperture. This allowed them to only have the subject in focus, the leaves and the keys of the keyboard, while the backgrounds and foregrounds stay out of focus.