I was reading the blog of someone who had taken a photo workshop with Bryan Peterson, the author of the photo book I am reading. The blogger said the first 3 assignments were wide angle shots: lines, textures, and from above. I've already played a bit with lines and happened to have shot one from above, so here's a wide angle with textures. I tried to emphasize the wide angle aspect .by composition and with usind a shallow DoF., focusing on the middle towel in this shot.
There is also a shallow DoF challenge going: on https://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/29559/technique-challenge-70-shallow-dof
Hi again - just a quick question - is this the same type of lens that the real estate guys use to take their photos - makes rooms look bigger? Love this texture photo.
@robz Hi, Oh, I'm glad you liked this one...the lens I'm using is the one that came with the camera kit..it is 18-50mm and I am just keeping at the 18-25ish range for thie exercise...And, from what I know, real estate agents do ues wide angles to make rooms look bigger...but so many now just use smart phones.
@granagringa Thanks for the info. I have a Canon also, but just a small one that doesn't allow for lens changes. Ok though - still learning how to use what it does do.
loving the textures and composition but... what really takes my eye is the Dof..
Most folk, and books, would say that when using a wide angle lens it is almost impossible to produce bokeh, even when wide open - because of the inherent DoF of a wide angle lens.
They, obviously, have not done what you did for this image.. it is a technique which i use too, to limit DoF. the angle of lens to object needs to be somewhere around 45 deg or less. great work..
love the hues/tones too..
@jorlam Thank you as always for your thought-out comment...you are much more technically aware than I am, so I learn from these And really appreciate that you can see what I am trying to do even if not achieving "wow' factors....what I wanted in this was to have the focus be in middle ground as so many shallow DoF shots focus on the foreground.
Most folk, and books, would say that when using a wide angle lens it is almost impossible to produce bokeh, even when wide open - because of the inherent DoF of a wide angle lens.
They, obviously, have not done what you did for this image.. it is a technique which i use too, to limit DoF. the angle of lens to object needs to be somewhere around 45 deg or less. great work..
love the hues/tones too..