Thursday, January 11, 2007

Working on DOF

Canon 400D 50mm 1.4 @ 1/80 ISO 400

10 comments:

Kim said...

I've been working on getting my DOF right. I have a tendancy to make the background too blurry, which is beautiful for portraits, but not so great when you want to highlight a secondary feature in the background. I like the composition of this. As far as the rule of thirds go, the top crosses hit Elmo's nose and right between Meghan's eyes. But is she still too blurry? I could easily have stopped down the aperature a bit, but I wanted Elmo crisp and we were working with available light.

So... CC welcome! :)

Liz said...

Adorable shot and great compostion both vertically and horizontally. I do think that the background with your cutie patootie is a bit too blurry. Overall though it is a very cute shot.

Michelle said...

great dof! cute idea. we have this elmo too and all my ds wants to do is eat his eyes...lol

Jenny said...

Very cute shot. Love the DOF on this and the composition.

. said...

Great shot! I think your dd looks fine. I might brighten it up just a tad though.

Haleigh said...

I really love this shot. Elmo is is very good focus, and the background is blurred well. Great DOF.

Lorrie said...

I think it's great. Depends on who/what the focus of the shot is. I Love it! I think the DOF is outstanding.

Krissynae said...

Elmo is too cute. this is a great photo. Great shot

meliss said...

This is precious! I would have preferred the background a tad less blurred. I have no idea if that would even be possible with getting Elmo to look so fabulous too.

This is so creative! I love it!

Patti said...

Great photo. I love the DOF.