Narrow DoF Friday thread.......!

Morrisseeee

We have a Bokeh Wednesday thread....
How about a 'Depth of Field' Friday thread ???

Here's one I took (maybe not the best example) with an old Nikon 135mm lens on an Olympus:



So.......show us your DoF pictures for inspiration

rymus

What's this? a poor mans Bokeh Wednesday?!?

kgiller

Click for large

Valentia

Корабът ми на въздушна възглавница е пълен със змиорки

Sounds fishy to me:eek:

Morrisseeee

eh.........

do you mean :

Arabic حَوّامتي مُمْتِلئة بِأَنْقَلَيْسون
Armenian Իմ սավառնաթիռում լիքը օձաձուկ է
Bulgarian Корабът ми на въздушна възглавница е пълен със змиорки
Chinese (Cantonese) 我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔．
Chinese (Mandarin) 我的氣墊船充滿了鱔魚 [我的气垫船充满了鳝鱼]
Danish Mit luftpudefartøj er fyldt med ål Dutch Mijn hovercraft zit vol palingen
Estonian Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis
Finnish Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita
Gaelic (Irish) Tá m'árthach foluaineach lán d'eascainn
Gaelic (Manx) Ta my haagh crowal lane dy astan
Gaelic (Scottish) Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein loma-làn easgannan
German Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale
German (Swiss) Miss Luftchüssiboot isch voll Aal
Greek Τὸ χόβερκράφτ μου εἶναι γεμᾶτο χέλια
Hebrew הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
Hindi मेरी नाव मछलीयॉ से भरी है
Hoverkraf saya penuh belut
Hungarian A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal
Icelandic Svifnökkvinn minn er fullur af álum
Italian Il mio aeroscivolante è pieno di anguille
Japanese 私のホバークラフト は鰻が一杯です。
Korean 내 호버크라프트는 장어로 가득 차 있어요
Latin Mea navis aëricumbens anguillis abundat
Malayalam എന്റെ പറക്കും-പേടകം നിറയെ വ്ളാങ്കുകളാണു
Marathi माझी होडी मासळयांनी भरली आहे
Norwegian Luftputefartøyet mitt er fullt av ål
Russian Моё судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей
Serbian Мој ховеркрафт је пун јегуља
Slovak Moje vznášadlo je plné úhorov
Slovenian Moje vozilo na zračni blazini je polno jegulj
Spanish Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas
Swedish Min svävare är full med ål
Thai โฮเวอร์คราฟท์ของผมเต็มไปด้วยปลาไหล
Ukrainian Мій повітряний човен заповнений вугрями
Vietnamese Tàu cánh ngầm của tôi đầy lươn
Welsh Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod

Overblood

What the? These photos are bokeh photos. I thought with depth of field everything has to be in focus no?

AnCatDubh

Overblood wrote: »

What the? These photos are bokeh photos. I thought with depth of field everything has to be in focus no?

Two sides of the same coin perhaps at varying proportions?

Borderfox

Work today

Borderfox

kgiller

Overblood wrote: »

What the? These photos are bokeh photos. I thought with depth of field everything has to be in focus no?

I would have thought that a Depth of FIeld photo would be one which showed a particular type of DoF? Like in my pic where the focus is on a partucular part of the pic, showing what the DoF was.

People around here think that everything out of focus/blurry is Bokeh. They are wrong.

In fact, i would have said that most of the pics in the Bokeh thread are DoF photos.

Pigwidgeon

some tiny dof....

Valentia

Every photograph under the sun has depth of field one way or another FFS.

XLR8

Morrisseeee

Every photograph under the sun has depth of field one way or another FFS

Sorry if it sounds too general, I was looking for peoples 'best of' or most interesting DoF photos. I started off with a bad one, but there have been some good ones since.

Mycroft H

My understanding is that bokeh is how 'nice' the out of focus area is..... Dof is the area behind the subject and weather it is in focus or not

dakar

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Sorry if it sounds too general, I was looking for peoples 'best of' or most interesting DoF photos. I started off with a bad one, but there have been some good ones since.

In other words, an image where the depth of field, whether shallow or deep is one of the main elements of the image?

XLR8's image for example is a perfect specimen of depth of field progression, whereas Borderfox's images are beautiful examples of well controlled DOF. I presume that's what you meant:)

max_power

This qualify?

From the fees protest on Wednesday.

Hugh_C

DoF is the amount of picture that's in focus, not the stuff in front of whatever is in focus, not the stuff behind whatever is in focus, it's a measure of the stuff that's IN focus. So Valentia is not entirely correct in that you can have a picture that's entirely out of focus (and therefore zero DoF) except for maybe a few molecules of air in front of the lens but they don't count, do they?

Anyway, here's something with a very shallow depth of field:

melekalikimaka

bokeh to me is the oofh - out of focus highlights....

challengemaster

max_power wrote: »

From the fees protest on Wednesday.

Something of a more explicit nature came to mind first... I've been spending too much time on /b/ :pac:

Overblood

This is the exact same as the bokeh thread.

Heinrich

First shoots in the rose garden in the Bots

dakar

Overblood wrote: »

This is the exact same as the bokeh thread.

Only because everyone's posting shallow DOF!

kgiller

melekalikimaka wrote: »

bokeh to me is the oofh - out of focus highlights....

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I would say that bokeh isnt just out of focus lights in the background, but incorporating the out of focus bits of a picture to set the scene of the picture or add to the composition, as well as adding nice colour to background.

I cant explain my interpretation very well, but i can say that i think that it certainly isnt just setting the focus to manual and taking pictures of out of focus lights.

Mr. Grieves

Wasn't the meaning of bokeh discussed in detail already in the bokeh thread?

Depth of field is different and easier to grasp, I think. It refers to the range of distances a subject may be from the lens and still remain 'in focus', therefore a photo can have a large or a small depth of field. All photos have a depth of field.

Can we please rename this thread 'Small DoF', as this is what most of the photos posted exhibit? Otherwise may as well have a thread called 'Focal Length' without specifying which focal length we're talking about. Or, indeed, a thread called the Random photo thread

achtungbarry

Morrisseeee

Can we please rename this thread 'Small DoF'

MODS, please rename thread to : Narrow 'DoF' Friday ! (or Shallow, or small or whatever suits best)

Valentia

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Sorry if it sounds too general, I was looking for peoples 'best of' or most interesting DoF photos. I started off with a bad one, but there have been some good ones since.

I wasn't getting at you at all Just bored with a repeat of last weeks thread arguements about DOF and bokeh.

Valentia

Hugh_C wrote: »

Valentia is not entirely correct in that you can have a picture that's entirely out of focus (and therefore zero DoF)

My, you are a clever sod!

Ricky91t

Morrisseeee wrote: »

MODS, please rename thread to : Narrow 'DoF' Friday ! (or Shallow, or small or whatever suits best)

Would you not do that yourself?

Pivot_Al

Before the thread is re-named, here's an example of extensive DOF

Morrisseeee

I wasn't getting at you at all Just bored with a repeat of last weeks thread arguements about DOF and bokeh

No problem, no offence taken, I see your point, I thought people would see the whole point of DoF photos rarther than bokeh !

Would you not do that yourself?

I would If I could but I can't, can I ? pls enlighten me !

Dragan

Morrisseeee wrote: »

I would If I could but I can't, can I ? pls enlighten me !

If you double click on the title area, but not the link itself, of any thread you create, you should be able to edit the title.

Ricky91t

Morrisseeee wrote: »

No problem, no offence taken, I see your point, I thought people would see the whole point of DoF photos rarther than bokeh !


I would If I could but I can't, can I ? pls enlighten me !

Edit original post,and go advanced,Thread title can be edited there

Anouilh

sheesh

oshead

All these images taken with the MP-E 65mm @ f2.8 x5 magnification. The DOF is about 1 tenth of a mm.... :eek:

Sorry for the big pics but you wouldn't be able to see the DOF with smaller images.

Letter from the bank...


Crease on my index finger.


The next three are of a Bic lighter.

af_thefragile

Sorry posted before, but i've got nothing new to contribute this friday!

Pivot_Al

hits the right note anyway

.Longshanks.

Does this count? My first shot with my new nifty fifty!

Larger

challengemaster

Sure, why not.

Anouilh

Tips for narrow dof:

http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11896

kensutz

Anouilh wrote: »

Tips for narrow dof:

http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11896

Nothing helpful there tbh

DaireQuinlan

kensutz wrote: »

Nothing helpful there tbh

did you even read the thread ? There are several pointers there as to how to achieve narrow DOF, it's geared more toward that specific P&S they talk about, but they're generally applicable.

kensutz

Yes I did.

Buzz Lightyear

Narrow DOF with chess ....

njburke

Pollen, I think.



Niall

XLR8

focus pocus

Interesting thread.
This is my humble effort, it shows very shallow depth of field.
You can see a thin vertical strip that is in focus and contains the letter E.

Anouilh

stick-dan