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Hi, I feel stupid asking this question…. I was wondering what this thing is called. It’s where you take a picture and it focuses on just the main object such as the person, and then everything else is blurred in the background…. I just thought it’d be cool to do that with my camera…. but I didnt know what it was called, so that I could try to find it on my camera. heh thanks
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You are referring to the term “Shallow Depth of Field”, and its the type of photo I do love the most. Sometimes with some cameras this can be achieved with zooming in on the subject, often I use my macro settings and also zoom in.I tried that effect here » http://www.uniqueexposures.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=4234
Trying very hard to focus only on the leaf.Another attempt was with this chrysalis
» http://www.uniqueexposures.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=3936and spider » http://www.uniqueexposures.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=3757
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I do have a photo sharing site called Unique Exposures, with a gallery to share photos, and also with a forum where we discuss these techniques. You are very invited!
http://www.uniqueexposures.com/gallery
Barb
I have a Sony DSC-P32, I dont think I can do that 🙁 Aww man i’d love to do something like that because i think they look so cool. oh well.
You CAN do that, as I looked up the details of your camera, and you have an F stop as low as 2.8, which is what you would need for such a photo.
I also noticed if on AUTO the camera doesn’t do that setting, you do have a manual setting, which you can TELL the camera to set to F 2.8.
Just practice selective focusing and see what happens!
Barb
🙂You need a manual focus to be able to adjust what is in focus. On a video camera, it would be a dial on the front and you can select whether something in the foreground or background is sin focus. With an automatic settings camera, you could try to focus buut you usually cannot manually select where the focus is set to.
Phil wrote:You need a manual focus to be able to adjust what is in focus. On a video camera, it would be a dial on the front and you can select whether something in the foreground or background is sin focus. With an automatic settings camera, you could try to focus buut you usually cannot manually select where the focus is set to.That’s not entirely true. Most auto-focus camera provide the capability. Usually you first point directly at the thing you want to focus on, then slightly depress the “shutter” button. The camera will focus. Keep the shutter button slightly depressed, holding it in position and the focus will “stick” even though you point the camera in a different direction.All three digital cameras I’ve owned (Olympus, Fujifilm and Nikon) have worked that way.
I do believe our Konica-Minolta works the same way as Jeff described above…though you could always resort to the SLR cameras of the days of old with the manaul advance…in a way I miss mine…maybe I’ll lift it out of the closet today and say hello 🙂
For those effects on the photos I posted as examples, I did not use manual focus, although my camera has capabilities for manual focus. It was purely digital and auto focus.
I did use manual settings for everything else though.
there also computer programs out there that can edit your photo and do that, cant think of any right now but i know i saw 1 not that long ago that did that
Ah yes, graphic programs can blur one’s background, and I have resorted to it a few times, but it wasn’t easy.
I am not a total purist, but there is a lot of satisfaction when it comes straight off the camera just the way I imagined it to be when I took the photo.
xerraire wrote:You CAN do that, as I looked up the details of your camera, and you have an F stop as low as 2.8, which is what you would need for such a photo.I also noticed if on AUTO the camera doesn’t do that setting, you do have a manual setting, which you can TELL the camera to set to F 2.8.
Just practice selective focusing and see what happens!
Barb
🙂hey I set it to “Twilight/Portrait” (which sets F to 2.8) and it didnt come out like yours. I saw it said F2.8 on the side…. I dont think it sets shutter speed, etc. accordingly though… and my camera you cant manually change those things… I checked… Also, what Jeff said…. i tried that and apparently my camera doesnt do that. so yeah oh well… ill look around for some image editing programs to accomplish the effect. 🙂
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