Minimum Depth Of Field Work Diary

Within this lesson we had to shoot against both man made and natural backgrounds, we also had to stand quite close to the subject we was shooting, which was a model (a different student from the class), whilst they stood away from the background, this made the subject remain sharp and the background slightly out of focus, drawing attention to the subject.

Personally I prefer the natural background as I think it seemed more aesthetically pleasing and
also the models slight smile in the picture made it seem innocent. In the picture with the natural background the sun is shining making the flowers bright and contrast against her hair, I really like this effect and the way it made my picture look. I like how I left this picture virtually unedited as the idea behind this picture is natural, and by leaving it unedited I made it seem more natural than as opposed to if I had used photoshop on it.

With the man made background photograph, I like it however I feel it is a bit boring in comparison to the natural background, however the background which is out of focus and isnt meant to be the point of interest within the photo steals no attention from the subject due to it being boring. However I prefer that the minimum depth of field sharpens a subject and creates a contrast as opposed to the technique being a way to focus attention. Overall I really love this technique and I will definitely use it in my project, the idea I have in mind is for my natural shoot.