Comments on: Design, Photography & my first photoshoot.

By: Lindsay Newsome

Lindsay Newsome — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:31:53 +0000

Well that’s about the cutest baby i’ve ever seen! i think you did an amazing job with the photos, thanks!

By: LukeSkyTalker

LukeSkyTalker — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:30:26 +0000

Aperture isn’t a measured of speed. Aperture is a measure of the size of hole that is letting the light strike the film/sensor. So setting your lens to 1.8 is not necessarily “faster” than 22 since this does not move when the photo is taken. The Speed would be a reference to the shutter. This does change speed, allowing more or less light in. How fast the shutter moves has no direct effect on depth of field only exposure.
The other main factor in depth of field is how close to the subject you are. And in this case with the 50mm lens i would say that the focal distance to the subject has much more to do with the limited depth of field than the 50mm lens.

But your theory is correct just got some of the geek talk mixed up. Oh and im two games away from some street tacos Umm cant wait.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:37:20 +0000

Lighting was just an East facing window. I used a a fixed lens which was the canon 50mm @1.8mm. Depth of Field to make the foreground and background blurry is controlled through by 2 variables; The Focal Length of the lens and the aperture your shooting at. The greater the focal length and the faster the aperture the greater depth of field.

So in this case I was shooting at a focal length of 50mm and since I was using anywhere from 1.8-2.8 aperture I got that nice narrow depth of field. Does that help?

Hope all is well out there in Cali.

-Tyler

By: Kiril

Kiril — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:07:15 +0000

Tyler,
Great work on the baby pix. I would like to know more on the technicalities… such as lighting specifics, lenses used, and of course that cool short focal length effect (I’m guessing you tossed a macro on there or something). Thanks