Matthew Caines: Depth of Field

Photo of student with background of Leeds Beckett University with lowest F setting.
Photo of student with low F setting with blurred background. Photo taken by Flynn Connolly

First photo with the lowest F setting at F1.4. This was shot on an IPHONE 10. The background is blurry with the focus on me in the image. The higher the F number the less light the photo lets in and this shot has the lowest F setting so the most amount of light is in the shot for the software.

Photo of student with background of Leeds Beckett University with middle F setting.

Second photo with middle F setting to make the photo less blurry. Photo taken by Flynn Connolly

This shot was bang in the middle for the F settings. This was F4.5 with the background still blurry but you can see the majority of the background. The background is crisper compared to the first image but it does not take away from the main focus of the image.

Photo of me with background of Leeds Beckett University with a high  F setting.

Final photo in sequence with F setting at the highest possible number as he photo is no longer blurry. Photo taken by Flynn Connolly

For this shot, the F setting was at it’s highest. On my IPHONE the max setting is 16 and in this photo, there is no depth of field and the background takes away from my features and presence in the image. From a Journalistic point of view, this photo would work if there was something going on in the background and it needed to be shown so that it is relevant to the story.