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 TJ


This photo came together very quickly, and more by chance than great planning and organisation. I came across a box set of vinyls I own all having the same poppy logo on the label of my favourite band The Alarm. The idea immediately came to me to put the records in a row and see how a depth of photo photo might come out. To highlight depth of field I purposely used a small aperture value on the camera to give a small depth of field showing the record closest to the camera in focus with the subsequent records gradually becoming more out of focus. I used my white canvas backdrop, but I wasn't happy with the lighting, so in editing I used a white flood fill to give me a completely white backdrop.

Out of my other photos for consideration my favourite one is the centre shot of iron railings, which is similar in composition to the records just a completely different setting, where I got a nice shot of the closest post in focus with the subsequent posts out of focus.

Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. BlondeAries5 February 2012 at 16:33

    Really professional! Looks a great studio shot! I also love the sand shot at the bottom, it looks almost 3D, which I think is the best bit about shots with good use of DoF in them, you feel you could just step inside them and run around!!

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)