Title: “Meter Man”
Three descriptive tags: “depth of field”, “meter”, “field”, “green”
This has been the most difficult shot and assignment thus far. I am still grasping the idea of depth of field using the textbook and internet sources I think I have accomplished my mission though not as well as I could have. With a point and shoot camera – as the one I have – the textbook explained it is difficult with point-and-shoot cameras to achieve separation between foregrounds and backgrounds. My hope was that the line of the house naturally dividing the photograph in halves would achieve this. Not sure how it went though.
I feel that this assignment definitely shed light on the subject of depth of field. Although I feel that with control of my aperture I would have valued this assignment quite a bit more – you work with what you have got. As far as what I could have done to improve the shot, the answer is countless and far too comprehensive to list – to put it bluntly – I have quite a bit to learn on this subject area. Finding a suitable target was difficult, lighting was difficult, color was difficult, understanding the concept was difficult, et cetera.
This is definitely an important lesson to be taught in any educational setting and one that requires hands-on attention. I would definitely have my students roam around the school snapping photos and exploring the depth of field captured with each photo. Maybe a depth of field photo journal in itself would be required. Different depths of field for different folks. As syntax is difficult when looking at language – depth of field is difficult when looking and photo composition. Both equally difficult and uniformly important.
Photograph Assignment 03