Our Assignment for Week 10 looks at using Depth of Field (DOF) as an artistic component of a photograph. For this week we will be looking at shallow DOF (only part of the frame is in focus -- could be main subject, background, foreground, or even a smaller part of the overall compostion).

(Pictures for week 10 competition to be taken and posted between 20090906 and 20090913).

NOTE: We have two Seasonal competitions planned for the last two weeks of year two. You may take pictures for these anytime between 20090705 and the posting dates of 20100704 or 20100711. This way you can include your favorite holiday or season whenever it occurs during the year.

Rules:
1. Anyone and everyone who is interested in eligible. The goal continues to be
have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques with fellow
Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-2 thread for the week. Explain what
motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly
theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color
saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to
keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. There is one “Theme Concept” labeled “black and white,” but feel free to post
black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
6. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is
active to be eligible for judging.
7. Any picture taken from 20090705 to listed closing date is acceptable for the
two “Seasonal” competitions – Projects 52-2-51 & 52.

Full information is available at Thread https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/63239...ct-52-2-a.html

[ceericks]

Here is my photo for the DOF shallow.

[Rense]

My entry for the this weeks project 52. I wanted to post a landscape photo with a thin DOF, because it's not often done, and I think it can give a nice and powerfull effect. However, this is as close as I could get this week.... It's a picture of a salt marsh vegetation, with the rare Salicornia procumbens. It's made with the Helios 44M

[seacapt]

I trained the gnat to land on this tiny flower just to give it some scale!

[DanLoc78]

Here's mine. A Taylor guitar shot in a dark room with a small spotlight at 60mm, f/2.8, ISO400. I like the curves of the guitar's body and how the shallow depth of field really draws you to the detail in the wood.

Attached Images

 

[dragonfly]

This is a colorful strip of art glass which provided an interesting test of DOF for my Rikenon macro lens (135mm):

Larger F-stop (unknown which number):

[stevebrot]

This is a colorful strip of art glass which provided an interesting test of DOF for my Rikenon macro lens (135mm):

Larger F-stop (unknown which number):

Hi,

I will be judging tomorrow and need to know which image is your entry.

Steve

[ovim]

Morning dew and sun on our hedgerow

[DanLoc78]

love the lighting in that shot ovim

[dragonfly]

Hi,

I will be judging tomorrow and need to know which image is your entry.

Steve

Sorry, I'll pick the first shot which is on top...

[mithrandir]

Just got back from a cruise to Maritime Canada. You people have been doing some wonderful work while I have been gone.

[stevebrot]

Arrggh...

This is going to be hard. I will take some time a little later today to judge this week's entries and post the results around noon.

Edit: Much later today for the Judging...sorry

Steve

[stevebrot]

For the results of this weeks friendly competition see:

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/73491...w-winners.html

Steve