Depth of Field.

I had no idea there were so many things you could do with a camera! Until, of course, I started actually taking the time to learn! There are literally hundreds of settings and lenses and filters and things that make a photograph look the way it does. There is a lot to learn!

SO, to start out the semester, I created photographs with shallow and great depth of field. For those of you that don't know, a shallow depth of field is when you are close to a subject and it's in focus and the background is all blurred. Great depth of field is when an entire scene is completely in focus. Here is my shallow depth of field pic.

This is my gorgeous roommate Michaeline. *Favorite tip: "If you get to pick who you take pictures of, make sure they are attractive people. They make for better pictures." Good thing all of my roommates are super cute! They will make the perfect models!

Last Saturday we went out to this abandon swing set in the middle of Rexburg and took pictures. In order to keep her face in focus and the background blurry, I used my macro lens with a large f stop and focused on her eyes. This picture was taken in the middle of the day, probably around 3 or 4. I took the picture in the shade so there weren't super hard shadows on her face. The wind was also blowing a little bit so that made the perfect hair-blowing-model-effect. There was actually a piece of hair that was blowing across her face so I took it to Photoshop to fix it up.

Photoshop is another project in itself! There are also hundreds of things you can do in Photoshop, but for this assignment I just learned a simple, basic editing tool called the healing brush tool. I was surprised at how easy it was! All you do is click on the color of her face that you want to use to cover up the hair and then drag the tool over the hair and it's gone!