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Thanks for the opportunity to choose this month's Exercise in Style which is to be Extremely Shallow Depth of Field.

Submissions valid between 1-30 June 2006

THE RULES:

IMPORTANT: There are no prizes. This is not a challenge. It is an exercise...
1. All members are urged to participate with photos taken in the current month
2. All makes and models of camera accepted, FSLR, DSLR, P&S, pin hole, MF, LF
3. All method of Post Processing (PP) allowed- unless 'theme' states otherwise
4. Only one (1) image per member
5. Submissions valid between the 1st and last day of the month.
6. You may do more PP after posting your image
7. First person who posts an appropriate image gets to choose theme for next month
8. Have Fun !!

And to start, here is mine (which of course is not part of the exercise but just to give you an idea of "extreme" DOF.)



Cheers
Sheila

2 shallow DOF shots from this morning.

Pinhead in Cork

Cycad

excellent subject choice for this excercise Sheila
i love creamy bokeh

shot at f1.4 on the Nikkor 85mm f1.4
the blur at the forefront is not dof it's a blurred out garment in front of her face

That just doesn't work at all like that, Wendell.

Wendell - the bokeh behind the model on the left (as you look at her) is certainly creamy - the OOF blur of the material is quite distracting unfortunately.

My word Steve, that pin head is an extremely extremely shallow DOF. Just a tiny sliver. Excellent shot. The second is great too, colours are lovely, but you're gonna have to choose one as your entry I'm afraid .

Like that shot a lot Wendell looks like it was taken in a low sun lit field after a concert in 1969 (bring back free love).

rokkstar wrote:bring back free love

Damnit. Why didn't I get to live when there was free love?

These days it costs too much.

Even "cheap" love would be something

Ahhh... will have to break out the 50/1.8 for this one I reckon.

Great topic Sheila - thankyou

just went outside before and got this one

There is a story to this HD. I thought it was a kaputt but it was the enclosure that was no good.

Excellent choice Sheila (and not at all like the topics you mentioned to me)... I'll have a go at this one... probably with my 80-400VR & Close-ups... you can't get much shallower than that

Shot of the end of a large rusty nail against the blue sky

I finally managed to get some spare time to put a ES worthy entry in. Had a bit of fun getting the lighting right

A 85/1.4 would have been a treat for this!.
Both from 50/1.4 @ f/2

Click for a larger version



the alternative/companion image is:

People just love carving up the bamboo in the Botanic Gardens



Cheers

This sounds really fun, will be submitting later on.

Was just playing around and took a few images of an often Photographed subject but different perspective and it fits the theme

cheers
marco

Hi I am new here, just got a d70s on the weekend.
A friend pointed me in the direction of these forums to learn some tips.

Mucking around tonight - here's the result:

This effort using an old borrowed 50mm f1.8. Oh for a 1.4. .



Cheers, John

kazuhiro wrote:Hi I am new here, just got a d70s on the weekend.
A friend pointed me in the direction of these forums to learn some tips.

Welcome to the forum. Perhaps you can take another with a much shallower depth of field.

Cheers
Sheila

We have some nice efforts so far. So lets see a lot more

Cheers
Sheila

Okay, just digging up one from the availables...



a < 0.0005m DOF

Fantastic pic Yi-P!

I feel like i'm looking through a peep hole on a door.

Nice one Geoff - where/how did u come to shoot this?

Thanks Geoff

This was taken today using my 60mm Nikon Micro at f5. It is the front lens cap of said lens.

Geoff

Wow Geoff - incredible effect

Some very fine nylons.

EXIF intact 1/8000 shutter, 580EX + 2x500W halogen light

took a lot of shots

Ah some people's brains work faster than mine. Here is a shallow DOF of my housemate's Hyundai Excel's automatic label on the front quarter panel (yes, it's an automatic!)

taken with 90mm f2.8 Tamron Macro

Water Lily

Ed.

Some sort of seed pods?

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This is kind of Selective Focus rather than DOF but i think it works for the theme anyway - how else can you shoot shallow DOF at f16?!

Nice! I'll pay that. Very different interpretation to the obvious.

Cheers hash..just realised the coincidence of shooting the number 16 at f16 as well!! Of course that was planned from the very beginning!!

Liam

beetleboy wrote:Cheers hash..just realised the coincidence of shooting the number 16 at f16 as well!!

And consequently, your DOF is huge (as opposed to extremely shallow) - all the way from the trees to the clouds

Cheers
Steffen.

Here's one from last evening. The DOF isn't really extreme (this was taken at 85mm f/4) but pretty small:



Cheers
Steffen.

Drink up.

Pentax ist*D with 50mm 1.4:

finally got around to thinking up something to shoot ...
during the week i bought 3 second hand extension tubes with a Pentax F50/1.4 [for $99.00] and wanted to try it out so i added three other extension tube i had to the combo and shot this one dollar coin at f1.4

the eyes have it ...

Nice one Big Red. It is impressive how much detail a coin has close up - mainly scratches. Have you tried to mount the Pentax 50mm in reverse?

Nice work coming in folks. I am glad I picked something which forced you all to think outside the envelope.

Cheers
Sheila

Sheila - A great choice

Heath Bennett wrote:Nice one Big Red. It is impressive how much detail a coin has close up - mainly scratches. Have you tried to mount the Pentax 50mm in reverse?

not long after i bought the DS i glued two filter rings together and made a 50-50 macro using two M50/1.7 lenses ...
talk about small DOF

Nice range of entries. I hope Steve Griffin is thinking of the next topic for July.

Cheers
Sheila

Unfortunately I borrowed this lens and had to give it back

Here is mine, taken during the Waston's Bay Meet.

Sheila et al,
I have a few things in mind for the July ES just can't decide which one to go with at the moment. I guess it will be decided at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning on my way to work