A journey of photographic adventure, Two Views was born by two friends having a blast and learning from each other on a photo shoot in the autumn sunshine, asking the question “How can we continue to push our photographic boundaries in terms of technical knowledge, new challenges and creativity and have fun at the same time?” The answer we came up with was to set ourselves a project every two weeks, and then publish the results together. Two Views of the same subject / idea or technical approach. By the end of this year we will have covered 26 subjects and produced at least 50+ awesome photographs, and have learned a huge amount along the way! We’d love your comments, critiques and ideas, and if you want to “play along” too, please do let us have your shots by links in the comments sections! TJ & The Brunette

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Depth of Field by The Blonde





I found this assignment easy! In the sense that I saw an idea straight away that I wanted to try, and it was just one of those dream studio shoots where everything went my way! I found a nice piece of grey black granite for a background, and then set up my tripod with a lamp skimming the top to add some texture and then shot at the smallest f stop I had, f3.5 on ISO 100 for great picture quality and then I just experimented with my focus. In the end I found focusing on the second pencil in gave me the right amount of focus to be sharp at the front, leading into a nice blur at the back. My final shot needed no editing other than a subtle crop. Below are some other examples of DoF I like from my files, and another shot in the studio at the same time of some pens, but the pencils win out for me, I love the texture of the sharpened wood and the primary colours.
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  1. tim5 February 2012 at 16:41

    This is brilliant! It emcompasses the subject matter perfectly. A simple idea and yet visually stunning. A perfect composition. Well done!

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