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I took this picture for my “selective focus” assignment. (Selective Focus-Using focus to direct attention to a certain area of a scene. Commonly used with narrow depth of field – just the subject will be in focus and areas closer to and further from the subject will be blurred).
One of the critiques I got on this photo was to have placed the tooth so it was in front of my daughter’s dark hair. This would make the tooth stand out even more! I thought it was a great tip and so will make a note to do that in the future.
I looked here to get some tips for how to take this picture of the strawberry for a “Motion” assignment.
This picture was to fill an assignment that was an “extremely shallow depth of field“.
Here are some tips for how to take pictures with a shallow depth of field.
what absolutely gorgeous pictures!
I love narrow depth of field….
i gotta ask… how many times did you take the strawberry one? it looks hard to do…..
such lovely photos…your class is really helping you tweak your talent..just beautiful! xo
LOVE your pictures!!! Thanks for the tip links!!!
are you taking Karen Russell's class???? Love your photos!!!
Beth S.
My husband keeps trying to give me photography lessons. I say "Why, when you can just take them for me?!" But he's not always around so maybe I should learn. Thanks for the links!
Those photographs are beautiful. Thanks for the link to photography school. Great tips there!
Love the "Motion" assignment photo, Bravo!! I also must ask, how many times did you take that picture?
Why of course the strawberry pic only took 1 take to capture! HeHe! Yeah right! That was hard. Getting the strawberry in focus was tough! I really took about 100 shots before I got a good one of the strawberry in focus. The timing of when to drop and take the picture was difficult too. But I learned alot.
i do like the new look on the blog and I looove the picture of the strawberry! wonderful photo :)
LOVE those Amy! – I have to ask – what lens did you use for these? (I love when some great photog mom's will add lens, f-stop, ISO, Shutter speed under their pics!) you say you use your 55-200 alot – I hardly ever use mine and I'm trying to figure out why? – I know part of the reason is I often feel like I'm too close to use that lens – I have to back up when I use it – I'm also thinking of getting a prime lens – do you have one? the 50mm doesn't auto focus with the D40 – the camera shop suggested the new 35mm to me, it does AF.