{"id":92,"date":"2012-05-30T03:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-05-31T02:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T02:08:32","slug":"experimenting-with-depth-of-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/2012\/05\/experimenting-with-depth-of-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with Depth of Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent issue of National Geographic, there was a cover story about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans. What made the story stood out for me was the accompanying photographs by David Burnett. Using a large format SpeedGraphic camera set at a very shallow depth of field, he created pictures that took on a fantastic quality making ordinary scenes of devastation seem surreal like a dream or a nightmare depending on your perspective. Quite compelling. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moillusions.com\/2006\/07\/model-world-by-olivo-barbieri.html\" target=\"_blank\">This technique <\/a>though is not unusual and can be accomplish through a standard tilt-shift lens. You can also duplicate the effect <a href=\"http:\/\/recedinghairline.co.uk\/tutorials\/fakemodel\/\">through Photoshop<\/a> as well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After coming across another article about photography using shallow DOF, I decided to give it a try. Since I do not have the right sort of equipment in doing it in the field, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyjam.com\/articles\/52\/the-tilt-shift-miniature-fake-technique-in-photoshop-cs-a-simple-how-to\">a popular technique using Photoshop software<\/a> to simulate the effect. You can see this handiwork on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ncbrian\/sets\/72157594534091699\/\">my Flickr site<\/a>. It is just a few photos taken from a variety of photosets.<\/p>\n<div><a title=\"An experiment with the Tilt Shift method\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/389333112_59d4a73dd9_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-frame alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/389333112_59d4a73dd9_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The one limitation I had was that my photos generally do not make great subjects for this sort of technique which works best if you are positioned above a landscape, preferably one without people and have a quality of light that is bright and casts long shadows.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that I will not spend much time on doing but it is a good illustration on what you can with some basic techniques using the Quick Mask tool and gradients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent issue of National Geographic, there was a cover story about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans. What made the story stood out for me was the accompanying photographs by David Burnett. Using a large format SpeedGraphic camera set at a very shallow depth of field, he created pictures that took on a fantastic quality making ordinary scenes of devastation seem surreal like a dream or a nightmare depending on your perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-processing","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianleon.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}