How did I do this?

[GAD]

Simple question. How did I accomplish this shot? Largo and Sar can't play until there are 10 responses.

GAD

 

[Largo]

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this one!

 

[GAD]

hey no fair making one of the ten responses...

..well two now that I answered. Doh!

GAD

 

[sarnewfie]

ok i will make the third response this is the photo that made up my mind to buy the lens you recommended gad!

 

[Largo]

Dratz! Busted!

 

[Leslie]

Um, don't you just aim and shoot?

 

[Capri]

^I'd go with same same as you, Leslie..

But i guess that's not what you're looking for GAD?

This is what separates the amateurs from the pros..

 

[GAD]

Here's a leading question then:

If you took a pocket camera, and "pointed and shot", standing where I stood, would you get the same shot? Why or why not.

GAD

 

[Rhonda]

the depth of field is different on a point & shoot?

 

[GAD]

Rhonda that's true, but why, and what specifically did I have to do to make the image come out like that?

GAD

 

[Leslie]

Um, hold really really still?

You can tell my husband is the photographer right?

The suspense is killing me!

 

[Largo]

 

[dogger]

you focussed on the bird house with a zoom lens so of course everything else will be fuzzy

 

[GAD]

Dogger I could focus on the birdhouse with a zoom lens and make everything sharp too. I chose for the house to be sharp and the trees to be out of focus - but how?

Be careful with your terms too. While I did use a zoom lens (70-200 IS f/2.8L), the fact that it zooms has nothing to do with the effect. (hint there)

GAD

 

[Sheila]

focused on the birdhouse and used a setting for gaussian blur on the background.....ok ok, I know nothing about true photography.

 

[Jeannie]

Ok I'll take a stab and you will see how camera stupid I am. In another thread you said you can put your finger over the lense when you are zooming to make the background blur. Is that what you did??

 

[Jeannie]

Bokah? Now I am going to go follow the link to see what it is

 

[Elly May]

You focused on the birdhouse and set your aperture (which is the size of the lens opening) to a low f-stop (2.8) to give you the shallow depth of field. A pocket camera doesn't give you the option to change your shutter speed or aperture, so everything in a picture would come out clear - unless you moved the camera....

 

[GAD]

Elly May has got it! There's one last thing though in order to make that shot I needed a fast aperture and something else (which has already sort have been said)...

Jeanie - almost - I said you could put your finger in front of the lens and it would be so out of focus that you wouldn't see it.

GAD

 

[sarnewfie]

i get this on auto action or on the portrait setting
i cheat.
i have been getting some incredibly clear detailed shots of geese in action, on auto action setting, not sure it is preferred to do manual for those shots, but some say they use several settings when they go shoot something.