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Got DoF? Show us your shallow depth of field shots!

Postby Kris on Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:10 pm

More the merrier, I love shallow dof so perhaps you can post some of your images to show others how DoF can be used to turn something dull into something of interest?

Just an idea.

I'll start with a lame one

ISO 3200, F1.2

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Postby casnell on Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:22 pm

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My version of DoF fun...does that work for anyone? I still dunno...
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Postby Kris on Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:24 pm

Looks good to me casnell!!
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Postby dviv on Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:27 pm

A 17-55 kit lens reversed on the 350D - It's one if the REALLY, REALLY small chips on a stick of Computer RAM.

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Postby mR_CaESaR on Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:33 pm

one of the earlier snapshots when i got my 85mm from the back yard

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Postby michael_ on Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:26 am

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Postby Kyle on Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:29 am

I'll play :D

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Postby Kris on Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:54 am

:) come on people! The cat one is funny...
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Postby BT*ist on Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:55 am

Not so much for the artistic merit, merely for the celebration of DoF, here's an angled view of a 20c coin, courtesy of the Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro. (That said.. there are some really good shots above!!)

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Postby MHD on Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:50 am

From my old POTW
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Postby Manta on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:02 am

50mm 1.4 and filthy keyboard....

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Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:40 am

flat-packed cardboard boxes, 50mm 1.8 just after i got it
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:54 am

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Postby casnell on Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:26 pm

Kris wrote::) come on people! The cat one is funny...
That cat has attitude...
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Postby michael_ on Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:47 pm

casnell wrote:
Kris wrote::) come on people! The cat one is funny...
That cat has attitude...
tell me about it :) the owner (who was an old friend) bought an a3 sized poster of it then had it framed.
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Postby Laurie on Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:54 pm

CATURDAY!!!
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Postby pharmer on Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:14 pm

Lots of great shots.

I'm a fan of ultra shallow DoF - I'll throw in an image as well :D

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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:17 pm

Hey Pharmer looooong time no see.. Love the Shallow DOF shot.

Still enjoying your 5D or have you upgraded again ?
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Postby pharmer on Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:22 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:Hey Pharmer looooong time no see.. Love the Shallow DOF shot.

Still enjoying your 5D or have you upgraded again ?


Cheers Craig

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Postby casnell on Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:42 pm

michael_ wrote:
casnell wrote:
Kris wrote::) come on people! The cat one is funny...
That cat has attitude...
tell me about it :) the owner (who was an old friend) bought an a3 sized poster of it then had it framed.
Wonder if my Euro want's to buy a copy???
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Postby Kris on Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:49 pm

Barrie, fantastic shot :)
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Postby christiand on Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:49 pm

Hmhhh,

well, I'd like to ad this one:

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Postby Kris on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:02 pm

Thanks for the addition - some awesome examples :D
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Postby Matt. K on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:06 pm

michael_
Your cat shot is masterful!...All of the others are merely good.
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Postby Matt. K on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:07 pm

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Your headlight is also masterful! Keep them coming!
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Postby radar on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:21 pm

A quick wattle flower from this afternoon.

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Michael, that is a great cat photo :up: and that's coming from a dog lover.

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Postby jammy2 on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:24 pm

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Here's one taken from Melbourne with a bit of heat haze from the atmosphere =)
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Postby christiand on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:27 pm

Hi Jammy2,

I love this photo, great stuff :D

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Postby DanielA on Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:36 pm

Hmm... Best I've got seems to be:
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Laurie wrote:CATURDAY!!!

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Postby Big V on Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:13 pm

I'll play..
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Postby in1way on Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:17 pm

A few more weeks and the bottlebrush will be flowering again giving me some more photo ops of the loris.

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Postby matt-chops on Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:34 pm

Be gentle. It's my first time... (posting a photo on the forums :D ).

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Postby Yi-P on Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:13 am

I'll take it down further...


Tip of a 0.5mm pen... DOF is approximately 0.02mm :lol:
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Postby big pix on Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:16 am

105 Nikon macro.....

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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:16 am

Yi-P wrote:I'll take it down further...


Tip of a 0.5mm pen... DOF is approximately 0.02mm :lol:
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Any further takers? 8)


Thats incredible :shock:
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Postby rah on Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:13 am

My shot. 1st decent shallow depth shot Ive managed.

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Postby Kris on Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:48 am

holy smoke that Ballpen! Is that a macro shot? Amazing YiP!
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Postby michael_ on Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:11 am

Yi-P wrote:I'll take it down further...


Tip of a 0.5mm pen... DOF is approximately 0.02mm :lol:
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Any further takers? 8)


f/0? what the hell
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Postby mR_CaESaR on Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:56 am

michael_ wrote:
Yi-P wrote:I'll take it down further...


Tip of a 0.5mm pen... DOF is approximately 0.02mm :lol:
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Any further takers? 8)


f/0? what the hell


probably reverse lens
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Postby SteveGriffin on Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:20 pm

Here's my contribution
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Postby Pa on Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:32 pm

this is one of mine i like.


cheers pa.

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Postby BT*ist on Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:57 pm

Yi-P: :up: That is brilliant!

... I'm going to look for another shot. My '20c coin on edge' shot is looking neither artistic nor technically decent in the face of some really, really good images on this thread.

Personally, I'd like official confirmation that this constitutes an 'August EIS'. :D
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Postby poompy on Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:26 am

this actually two images stacked together to increase the DOF

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Postby fishafotos on Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:58 am

Wow, Yi-P that is an incredible shot! What lens?

My dodgy addition, taken with a 50/1.8:

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Postby BT*ist on Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:52 pm

A second contribution, a follow-on to photos I took <a href="http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=27959" target="_blank" class="postlink">last weekend</a>

The colour is deliberately skewed to make the plant look even more alien, but you can see from the branch on the right hand side that the DOF is fairly narrow!

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Postby Yi-P on Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:41 pm

fishafotos wrote:Wow, Yi-P that is an incredible shot! What lens?


Thanks for all the inputs :D

The photo of that tip of the pen is shot using a reversed 28mm f/2.8 lens on the D70. The image is not cropped at all. The magnification is probably down to a wooping 9X magnification, that is 9X the life size. Lens' rear element is about 1cm away from the pen, very dangerous if you're not careful enough... :P
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Be Kind - My First Photo Post

Postby Chaase on Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:16 pm

The Cheese & Kisses :shock:
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Postby myarhidia on Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:14 pm

Chilli anyone?

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