*Yawn*, Happy Wednesday morning everyone. I’m beat, Scott and I spent last night with Scott’s Aunt & Uncle in Boston. (Thank you guys for a great night!) We had a yummy dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and then went to Fenway to watch the Red Sox beat the Angels! Needless to say we got home very late and of course had to be up very early. But it was totally worth it! Oh and a big shout out to Grammy & Grampy for watching the kiddos! Thanks guys!
Now onto today’s, What’s that Wednesday post. Last week we had guest blogger Lindsay Lehmann here to discuss depth of field. If you missed that post you can check it out here. She and I also challenged you guys to try and create a photograph using DOF to enhance your image. I sweetened the deal by offering a $50 gift certificate to the best image. Sadly though, we only had one entry. I have to say I was surprised and a bit disappointed. But the image we received was a GREAT example and I am very pleased to tell Kellie … you won! I’ll be in touch soon with your certificate and thank you for participating. Check out her image below!
I also promised to critique the images. While critique can sometimes be hard to take, it is very helpful in the learning process. (Or at least it has been for me.) So anyway, to critique Kellie’s image, I had to first review her meta-data or camera settings. Here’s what I found:
Honestly, the image is a good example of DOF and was a perfect entry. The exposure looks right on however the image was slightly out of focus. And really that is just being very nit picky. It definitely was acceptable focus but I prefer super sharp images. When I reviewed her settings I found the reason. Her shutter speed was only 1/50 which is a pretty long exposure to hand hold and explains the camera shake. Kellie, next time try to keep your shutter speed at least double your focal length to avoid camera shake. In this case, the focal length was 39mm so 1/80 shutter or faster would have produced a sharper image.
Thanks again Kellie for participating! Hope you had fun!
