Focus with set aperture - Exercise 2

Focus with a set aperature

As the weather was against me, I set up a row of wine bottles as my scene with depth. I mounted my camera on a tripod and took a series of 3 photographs. These demonstrate the effects of focussing in different places on the same picture. For this arrangement, I prefer the focus in the middle because it gives the eye a place to start from. The viewer can then move outwards to view the whole scene.

Focus on the left bottle

Focus on right bottle

Focus on middle bottle

All photos were taken with 50mm fixed lens with an aperture of 1.8mm to let lots of light in and produce a small depth of field. I manually selected the focus points and kept the camera in the same position mounted on the tripod. I used the shutter release cable to minimise movement.The picture I prefer is the one where the right hand side is in focus. This is because it is nearer to the viewer and I think it leads your eyes down the line of bottles.

16/2/13 – from experience gained throughout the course, I would now use my 24-105mm F4 lens with a circular aperture because it has a circular aperture rather than a pentagon shape.