{"id":22611,"date":"2014-03-11T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=22611"},"modified":"2014-03-11T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:45:05","slug":"a-killdeer-and-the-effects-of-depth-of-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/a-killdeer-and-the-effects-of-depth-of-field\/","title":{"rendered":"A Killdeer And The Effects Of Depth Of Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depth of field can have some\u00a0fairly dramatic effects on an image and how much of it is preferred can depend on the tastes of the viewer.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I\u00a0found a cooperative\u00a0Killdeer on Antelope Island.\u00a0 It wandered around on top of a very large, flat rock and gave me a variety of poses and backgrounds.<\/p>\n

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\"killdeer<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4 II, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When it moved to the end of the rock some dried sunflower stems in the background came into play and I had to decide how to deal with them.\u00a0 In the field I thought their presence in the image might be interesting but they were far enough behind the bird that I knew they would be quite soft at typical apertures with my long lens and teleconverter.\u00a0 And that might be just fine because background elements like this are often preferred to be\u00a0out of focus\u00a0so they don’t compete so much with the subject.<\/p>\n

The bird was cooperative and I had the time with it to dink around a little\u00a0so I decided to experiment with aperture…<\/p>\n

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\"killdeer<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a01\/400, f\/18, ISO 400, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4 II, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I shoot in aperture priority partly for situations just like this.\u00a0 I dialed in f\/18 (from the previous f\/7.1) to see how much difference it might make with the sharpness of the\u00a0sunflowers and the overall bokeh (the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photograph)\u00a0of the far background and I think the contrast between the two images is\u00a0fairly obvious (beyond the relatively minor difference in poses from the bird).<\/p>\n

At f\/18 I have enough depth of field to get the sunflowers much sharper.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In addition, the far background is significantly less homogenous and blurred and gives the viewer a bit more of a feel for habitat.\u00a0 Even the foreground white rock at the very bottom of the frame has much more detail at f\/18.<\/p>\n

For those reasons I prefer the second photo over the first (even though I like the calling pose of the bird in the first shot).\u00a0 Perhaps this is another case of me over-analyzing images but I can’t help myself.<\/p>\n

Once again it’s a matter of taste and perhaps others have a different preference…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Depth of field can have some fairly dramatic effects on an image and how much of it is preferred can depend on the tastes of the viewer.<\/p>\n

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